Your children roam the gridlocked streets hand-in-cardboard, feet firmly on uneven ground, eyes heavy with the rubble of their foreclosed homes. They live in grocery carts.
Forget Fifth Avenue, or the Villages, or the cobblestone streets of young and old, or the unseen gates of Striverβs Row. Your heart lies by the subway stations that ring with the songs of a lonely old man, his teeth yellowed, but voice golden, asking not for introductions nor coin, but for a listener.
New York, they cry for you to hear them. (Your poor, your tired, and your weary)