.the day is beautiful and so are you.

(from the New York Times - 2007)

Yesterday ended up being a
beautiful day
(even though beautiful days are overrated).
I went to mxyplyzyk
(which is overrated too)
and then just went
the Hudson River Park
and watched the runner
and the babies
and the dogs
and finished my book
(which was quite good).

I walked back,
and the corner of 11th and Waverly
was just unbearably beautiful
and if I could afford to live
anywhere
it would be the way West Village
(even though 11th and Waverly isn't way West Village).
It's so quiet
and exactly what you think New York
should be.
But the only people who can
afford it
are Europeans.
And I wish I was kidding,
but not a single person I passed
was American,
mostly Germans and British.

God damn American dollar!