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REDEEMING_NEWYORK

                                                         June 25, 2002
A review of New York, June 2002:

Yesterday:

   Yaffa Cafe
   alt.coffee
   Tompkins Square Park
   The Tonic

And today the West Village,
but I'm feeling like I'm in a rut,
I'm not seriously exploring because
I don't expect to find anything new.      Of course, it could
                                          be the heat.

                                            Or it could be that
                                            I really don't like
                                       	    being without Raven.
But every so often
I start surfing the
ennui, and start
having a good time
in spite of myself.


   Then I see a tall black guy walking
   around with a life-size model of
   the Virgin Mary on one shoulder,
   and a framed painting tucked under      No one seems to smile
   the other arm, and I feel much          at this but me, but
   better.                                 a number of them do
                                           stop and look, while
                                           pretending that they're
                                           just waiting to cross
                                           the street.




And "Tea and Sympathy" is excellent,
not crowded at all on this weekday
afternoon.  				  Real seven grain bread
					  Scottish chedder
   A woman wanders in who       	  Watercress.
   begins telling the staff
   the story of her life,                 Iced black currant,
   inside the life of an                  then a pot of Earl Grey.
   ex-model.

                MODEL_X



                              Notes of other stuff to write up:

                                 The music at the tonic.

                                 Pumpernickle bagels from H&H.



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