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CitySketch – Central Park Tree
After spending the last few years’ worth of lunch hours in Bryant and Madison Square Parks, Central Park is overwhelming, like opening the closet door of a studio apartment and finding it leads to a Bavarian castle. The trees are bigger. The rocks are bigger. The sky is bigger. The people who share the space… Read more
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A Kind of Cloud
I’ve always felt a kind of cloud Surrounded me on all sides but one I could always escape by going down I could shrink and hide inside myself Behind closed lips and eyelids I could concentrate on denial Hide shock with laughter and disgust with a smile I never knew where to put my fingers… Read more
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Comes Love
Comes Loveis a jazz standard composed for the Broadway musical Yokel Boy, by Sam Stept, with lyrics by Lew Brown and Charles Tobias. The play debuted on July 6, 1939 at the Majestic Theatre on 44th Street and ran for 208 performances. The Phantom of the Opera is playing there now, and has been since… Read more
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CitySketch – Central Park Fence
“Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in Central Park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!” Kurt Vonnegut The Hallett Nature Sanctuary in Central Park is a world within a… Read more
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