What's Outside The Window NOW (COVID)
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LOOKING OUT THE VERY SAME WINDOW THERE IS ONE IN THE LIVING ROOM
IN OUR RENT STABILIZED ORANGE APARTMENT ON THE CORNER FACING NORTH
TO THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND BEFORE COVID (BC) EVERY SINGLE DAY
EVEN YOM KIPPUR AND CHRISTMAS ANY TIME OF DAY OR NIGHT THERE WERE
ENOUGH PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE WINDOW TO MAKE A SMALL POLITICAL PARTY
ONE OF THE REASONS I WANTED TO MOVE TO NEW YORK WAS ALL THE UNEXPECTED
PEOPLE YOU DIDN'T KNOW AND COULD AND THEY WERE RIGHT THERE ON THE
SUBWAY THE BUS ON SO MANY STREETS RIGHT BENEATH MY WINDOW AND NOW
TODAY FOR INSTANCE BEAUTIFUL WARM I LOOK DOWN AND SEE A FEW PEOPLE
SITTING ON BENCHES ACROSS THE STREET THE MASKS DON'T LOOK AS CRAZY
AS THEY DID A MONTH AGO WHAT WE SEE IS DIFFERENT AS MANY BIRDS
AS PEOPLE AND THOUGH IT IS A WEDNESDAY MORNING PEOPLE ARE NOT AT WORK
NOT AT THE LIBRARY NOT AT THE GYM NOT ON THE SUBWAY EITHER SITTING FAR
APART AS THOUGH THEY KNOW AND I DO TOO THAT AFTER A WHILE WHO KNOWS
HOW LONG BUT AFTER A WHILE WE WILL GATHER BELOW THIS WINDOW AGAIN.