<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1">Afternoon in Manhattan</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Once upon a book</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>We walked through your Manhattan</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>While smoke-scented air</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Drew cool in our nostrils</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>We strolled its wasted streets.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Your hand held mine</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>And I looked into your face –</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>“There is a man” you whispered to me,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Pointing with your voice</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>“With all he owns in that paper sack.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>And I knew you knew, but never how.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>We paused before a new brick house</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Pressed between buildings of crumbling stone.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>“There,” you spoke “is where your great uncle lived,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>“But his building was old and torn down.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>And I thought I felt your clear eyes cry</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>For the lost bricks</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>For those lost dead bricks that you loved.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>On we walked</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Through the yellowfaced streets of Chinatown</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>My Chinatown</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>With paper fans and parasols</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>And the odor of food spelling <em class="">CHOW MEIN </em></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>In capital letters in the narrow streets.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>All that afternoon we were filled with each other</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>No street looked dirty,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>No building old and worn.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>All we knew were each other’s joys</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Which mingled with our own.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Then, laughing together we rode the slow train home.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Nan Fuchs</span></div></body></html>