5931. THIS EAST VILLAGE

THIS EAST VILLAGE
(though 44th and vanderbilt)

The sang-froid of the cold-blooded : an old

cemetery behind gates. 'Preserved' Fish, of New

Bedford is here in the ground. Pronounced

Pre-SERVE-Ed. I like that name always.

The rest of the family  -  Hamilton Fish and

the rest, along with Stuyvesant, made the city 

around here. I walk their ghost. I live in their

present, which is my past. Heaven help the rest.

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My few friends left in the Angels still smother E3rd.

Their armaments and motorcycles gun the street  -  

known as well as the 'safest' street in the city. Try

that idea on for size. Death's head for lovers.

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Here are my hands  -  take them; wrap the rope around

me and hoist me up like Nathan Hale. Sept. 22, 1776.