Thawing Out on Telegraph

Ye olde head shoppe

back with a vengeance

get those kids off

binge drinking

Winter came back

in mid-February

after a desultory showing

last December

we were rainless and

warm all year

until St Valentine's

Colder than normative 

almost everyday since

I'm walking

the boulevard

of broken dreams

according to

 Billie Joe Armstrong

Nevertheless

I persist

in dreaming

The Mad Monk

outlives most others,

The competition

goes to pot

Curious old LP sleeves

collect like leaves

On the sparkling sidewalk

All along the Telegraph

he opened many a door,

and he was never known

to make a foolish move

The venerable

poster shop

Represents resistance

Lure of the exotique

Yoga is big

bigger than ever

Making bets...

on Kentucky Derby hats

Prepare for the worst

and then forget all about

Life for the living

The Flaneur

is known to

discretely peep

if an occasion doth arise

Centrifugal force

keeps me

centered

Up to College avenue

striking clouds

over the Eastern hills

The Flaneur makes himself

a home in the world

He plays Hamlet

to Ophelia's Ophelia

He contemplates

remote snow in

the Sahara desert

22-23 March 2018