Oct 2022
I walked along Morningside Heights to
the place where the road ended. I was
on my way home from The Free School
which my children attend on my way to
my apartment on West 121St. where our
apartment courtesy of Teachers College
was. It was late afternoon in Spring and
I was feeling blue but that is another story
Just as I was about to turn West I saw on the
sidewalk a bunch of household trash seeming
remnants of a move. I looked closer and
saw three framed degrees from long ago
The last was a doctoral degree. It was then
I realized that it probably belonged to some
old Columbia professor who had died- out
living anyone who cared. Sad but New York
Is full of sadness and the ambitions of a life
are realized and expire and there is no one to
know what was achieved now worthless to all
who come after. Life is like a war with so many
unknown soldiers who's glory if any
was never here, never here forever
But I suppose we all secretly know
We live lives as mysterious strangers
Known in this world known but to God
Children's Free School A parent Coop back in the 70s
the place where the road ended. I was
on my way home from The Free School
which my children attend on my way to
my apartment on West 121St. where our
apartment courtesy of Teachers College
was. It was late afternoon in Spring and
I was feeling blue but that is another story
Just as I was about to turn West I saw on the
sidewalk a bunch of household trash seeming
remnants of a move. I looked closer and
saw three framed degrees from long ago
The last was a doctoral degree. It was then
I realized that it probably belonged to some
old Columbia professor who had died- out
living anyone who cared. Sad but New York
Is full of sadness and the ambitions of a life
are realized and expire and there is no one to
know what was achieved now worthless to all
who come after. Life is like a war with so many
unknown soldiers who's glory if any
was never here, never here forever
But I suppose we all secretly know
We live lives as mysterious strangers
Known in this world known but to God
Children's Free School A parent Coop back in the 70s
