October Night Of Divas - New York City Poem by Warren Falcon

'Don't talk wonder
Cause God broke thunder above' - Laura Nyro

for His Majesty


A night of divas

slow sofa fade

windows

city lights

fly one frame

to another


40 years now


Whatever became of Majestic,
his harlequin shoes,
his suicidal crocuses?


When did I marry Lonely?

can't recall

but fell kid-hard


backyard empty clothesline

silk slip one

pin down

dips shyly in

brick shadows'

pornographic

breezes


I sing to knees now


a good night with cool rain

beyond Manhattan Bridge

sudden heat lightning


old vinyl Nyro**


needle scratches


done with song



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**Laura Nyro, October 18,1947 - April 8,1997
Singer/songwriter in the 1960's until her untimely
death by cancer.