The taxi dazzles
Artists, poets, actors, the rich, the poor
Complete the life here
The colourless taxi creeps its worst
Sequels of failed connection
The taxi's rushing razzmatazz brushes the midnight cowboys
Who have lost midnight
In a city of romance, glitter and shine
Park Avenue beset by the quest for money and power
In this town of urban decay
Its reputation of un-emotion set against the Empire State Building
"The nearest thing to heaven'
The actress was known to have said, with emotion
The taxi shines at the Plaza Hotel
For the "dark poet" who carries the images
Of the angry, passionate, deluded, and psychotic
Life races with him through dressed streets or naked ones
And great movies are made in parody or in real terms
The citizen walks through without a glance
Dispassionate
The lone taxi near Central Park makes spectacles of the homeless
The actor seeks anonymity among them
The rushing taxi gains momentum moving back in time
Their space was amoral and crime ridden
Still, they gave us Matisse
Real time gives them hope
The subways kinetic energy
Tolerating mix, diversity
Living next door
And monuments
One less
A change in the skyline
But not in spirit
A new monument will blessedly heal humanity
In a broken place
