WE CAME. (Emerge)
We came from all five boroughs. Your Timbs smacked at concrete curb. A silver world at your back. Forty off to your side. The Bridge miles away. You headed past the matchbox frame forest and creased lawns sprouting
patchy like beards. On Sutphin, you waited for the Q6. Planes hummed high until you dipped low into the subway. You packed a pocket seat. Legs spread wide as your scowl. The E train shuttled you forward. Like a bullet through teeth
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A 20-year-old woman was hospitalized
and suffered a broken spine after being
attacked by a man using anti-gay slurs,
according to the New York City Police Department.
The man fled the subway system at a Forest Hills, Queens stop.
NBC News
We came from all five boroughs. You walked a neck of weather-worn road. Between cast iron hedges and towering brick. Beyond ash black rubber squares waxing ground chandeliered by squeaky swing sets. You followed the mossy river that dandled your nose. And headed down the hill to catch a dollar van. On the ferry, you rode the lowest level. Sitting outdoors, you sucked smoke from the blunt pinched where your index met thumb. Your durag’s tail wind-slapped like a cape. The City before you beckoned. The Uptown 1, half a harbor away.
