I've had the same view here in the city for awhile now the banks of the schuylkill the art museum rocky balboa himself its been 6 months the same window the same view so many lights always on occasional cars I can hardly see last nights snow littering the ground 7 stories downward one hell of a fall the glass is too thick don't worry no cleanup today only me watching the snow melt and the cars pass and the life of everything drudging slowly onwards as it has for six months now here on the banks of the schuylkill the tempo is all off a terrible pace in a terrible place Kerouac did a year up in New York 6 months more then maybe I'm out of here on the road to mexico cheap liquor and cheaper love the heart beats quicker there stooped up in some backwards bordello paying dime a dollar for another round then off to san francisco where the beat stomps and stutters under that spotlight or maybe the blood red mesas of el paso where the young broads dark as honey can taste just as sweet but only just a while its that thrill you long to have one more time breaking a sweat in the backyards sneaking love under fences and desert floors just to be anywhere else where the beat is quicker than here I'm growing deaf to it here in the doldrums here in the city of brotherly love on the banks of the schuylkill watching the same view from the same window as rocky balboa stands tall moving faster than me in that forever celebration