April 27, 2023 - “Just one of those favorite sounds you mentioned”

Bonus rotations for an afternoon sorting greeting cards & drinking P.G. Tips in City Hall Park. Before the rain starts you’d arrive and sit down, adding sentence cadences to words about the way spring always finds June afternoons and July nights that we’d swim through across Brooklyn Bridge, east to west and west to east. Just one of those favorite sounds you’d mentioned: the way the 4 train sounds pulling into the station after those three a.m parties at their place before their last place not far from the library still close to Grand Army Plaza, around the corner from that coffee shop we’d always go to just before dinner at that Indian place where you’d drink two Singhas before the saag paneer and we’d always get the check before the entree, it creates better momentum, you kept saying, we can just eat, then go