Just enough for the city

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Caught on a side street in heavy traffic, I said to the cabbie, I should have walked. He replied, I should have been a doctor. 2. When can I get on the 11:33 Iask the guy in the information booth at the Atlantic Avenue Station. When they open the doors, he says. I am home among my people.

"New York Notes" by Harvey Shapiro, from How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems. © Wesleyan University Press, 2001.