we were so tough on the upper
east side we divided ourselves
into three gangs after our favorite movies;
all ultraviolent; one crowd who thought
they were the toughest loved
***** Harry going to see it
repeatedly; those guys became cops;
the second crowd,
the art crowd was into A Clockwork
Orange & spoke broken nadsat; that
crowd all became artists;
the third crowd was enamored of Taxi Driver's
loner ****** fantasy; they turned
out to be criminals; we were so tough
we went to different movies
all week & met up together Saturday night
at the Rocky Horror Picture Show;
one man's riot is another man's parade