I settled here long ago already it seems like centuries. Drifting I prowl the city's back streets and linger watching the straight world. Few people want to come this far down where it's smelly and unclean. Me, I'm happy to be alive let the Dow Jones go about its changes.
Charles Rossiter (b. 1942), NEA Fellowship recipient, has been featured at the Dodge Poetry Festival in NJ, and on NPR. During the ‘90s he hosted the Poetry Motel TV program, still seen on cable stations in some parts of the Northeast.
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