Whaddaya want for a buck? Subway token accesses
all Five Boroughs. Warriors! Come out to play-ee-ay!
Pierce Manhattan’s underbelly like how a grave worm
devours a corpse. Smoke! Smoke! Crack! Crack it up!
Forbidden Planet near Union Square: purchase latest
Heavy Metal or Judge Dredd comic. I am the Law!
Don’t laugh at the longshoreman wearing that dress
within SoHo’s West Boondock. 6’4”, full of muscles.
PiL rehearse in a loft across the street unless eating
N. Carolina style ribs. It’s not a Monopoly game.
Silver Diner’s open 24 hours for a coffee or burger,
4 a.m., post-clubbing. Skim Voice music listings.
Trendy late ‘80s line forms for CBGB’s Sunday hard-
core matinee (party started with Warhol’s Factory).
Punk is dead! So are Andy and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Grow your hair long. Go home.
Philip Ash surfs the Dark Wave spectrum in your dreams. His work has appeared in Fixator Press and Beatnik Cowboy. He lives in San Diego.
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