Once what moved in New York City,

I offer you to see, my lad.

I offer you up

to observe the flourish of excited youth

and play in what was up till recently

the waste ground of desire and poor human contact,

and yet it held magic, abiding spirit and conscious

unsurpassed, true beauty in a bubble.

 

I offer you my son

the chance to be an English man

abroad, to witness first hand

all that I saw, all that I loved

and all who took me by the hand