This is not
On the South Bank
Or down
Upbeat Boulevard Way
No, I’m afraid
It’s just a coffee shop in a parking lot
An out of town, out of place
Shopping parade
You do not mind
That you are late for work
Your unkindness then
To talk of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Across from Chelsea gardens
Uptown though not so far away
The aroma of Elizabeth Arden
All of that from another day
Past times
Walks to upshot galleries
With glass high cafeterias
In the sky
All of that now gone
All but not forgotten
The Rothko, the Derby
The absence of the new
Springs of early summers
When we did not mind
That we were late for work
You and your Captain Kirk
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