38 East 32nd street New York
under the El
The Lexington Avenue El
is your dimly lit store
peeling of paint
of some past
Christmas
when the street
was in bloom
devoid of nigger threads
and the disheveled poor
that was the time
of the horse and carriage
and when apartment dwellers
swept their sidewalk streets
and spit
and dog dung
and beercans
received
an absolute
NO
but now
the
nigger dung dogs
have arrived
spitting poetry
into the streets
and your store
having lost
its Christmas
spirit
sits like a barren
lady
whose only item
is Tarot
cards
for the unlucky
lost
on
38 East 32nd Street
New York