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Bandito Ditto
New York City
(for G. Winston James)
by Michael Lassell

© copyright 2000 Michael Lassell
Used by permission of the author.


The boys are walking two by two under
umbrellas in the streets of the Village.
Sometimes they stop to check the menu of
Mexican brunches taped to the window.
I'm eating eggs rancheros in a No
Smoking booth, the same place I waited for
Hurricane Gloria to arrive, rage,
subside‹thinking myself at the eye of
large impending things. But empty decades
at the stub end of a millennium
changed me. A wisp of fringe, I don't believe
in eyes or hurricanes or even boys
anymore, though I do still love a big,
black umbrella in early autumn rain.


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