'The old guy was ranting. He had been walking the street. Now, leaning on a building, he was loudly exclaiming: "I have seen it! I saw it! Up there! One Luna Moona!"'
'Dear Judge Markham - The circumstantial evidence, it would seem, is not turning my way.'
'There was no mystery to the assurance of your presence : I was wandering around, and everywhere I went was a parcel of your existence. Every little thing seemed possessed of it.'
'In the cool evening air, where I was dreaming of Washington Irving.'
'Outside the cast of God, there was no one waiting in the wings.'
'My mysterious doorway - I lived within it and stayed there, precluding every other form of exposure for me.'
'A similitude of history, a mad jumble of fifteen thousand different things.'
'It was your marathon of love that kept me waiting.'
'Yes, well yes. It translates as 'I am what I say I am'. Do you see?'
'Mistaken gravity had led me to someplace else. "No, no" you said, "it was not that at all"'.
'Whorls of animadiversion - something I wanted to think about.'
'I wondered : can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?'
'Like a dream, of endless proportions; an idea of wide-open space.'
'The utility of my escape bore all the earmarks of running TOWARDS you instead.'
'I was running somewhere, out of control in a sidelong carom.'
'I was at the edge of the land, 'midst reeds and thatches, and just past me, gliding majestically down the Hudson, was a cruise ship, heading out to sea and crammed at its tops with people waving back to shore. The strange ship had left its berth from a nearby, uptown pier. I stayed alone, unseen, in the marshes.'
'My mainstay, and my appeal - innocuous, to nothing, and meaningless too? Ah, but I hoped not...'
'A vehicular traffic both annoying and minuscule - some friends on a side street, just looking back.'
'It was some kind of crazy memory - too far gone to mean anything and something, for sure, which had disproved itself a long time ago. All I saw now were cheap sentimental photos and slick wiry words.'
'...Like some voracious monster, just chewing up the scenery.'
'It would be fair to say I didn't always know what it was I was looking at.'
'To tell you the truth, sometimes my city wanderlust went only as far as 28 King.'
'The dictum was that there'd be nothing not forthcoming - words off an old portico notwithstanding, or decision from an old industrial warehouse front. With that, we had to live.'
'I was alive, I realized, in an amazing time of leftover old windows, formations of color and light, and some form of dimensional metal no longer seen. For that alone, I felt better.'
'Out back of Cooper Union, the old stairway beckoned even from a distance. I remembered where Mr. Lincoln had been, out front.'