Upper Westside
1
I knock around Upper Westside
visit imposing Columbia campus,
yesterday.
I couldn’t resist
returning to the palace
where I grew up…
intellectually.
Today, NYC is 92 and humid.
2
It’s time for Jack Kerouac
and Allen Ginsberg’s
watering hole.
The West End Bar
a draft of beer:
Walls are slather
with photos of them.
3
I commune with the Beats
on the road in my head,
howling.
Steve Heins