I am walking in washington square parkit is busy the hawks are
not out everyone at NYU is graduating everyone at NYU is taking selfies in
purple robes the kids are smoking the kids are selling t shirts sewn out of other t shirts
the kids are playing music so loud the hawks are not out,I am walking
in washington square parkthey are issuing a curfew, it is so hot
and busy the hawks are not outeveryone is dyingeveryone is
dying from yellow fevereveryone is buried in washington square park
everyone is buried in the marsh where kids are selling t shirts sewn out of other t
shirtseveryone is smoking on their bikes everyone is smoking on their
skateboardswalking in the marshpeople are upset everyone is dying
joanna newsom issingingjoanna newsom is skippingin washington square park
everyone is upset in the lanape villagethe hawks are not outeveryone
is
dyingin flowerbeds.
Amy Bobeda holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she founded Wisdom Body Collective. She is an editor of More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima. Her work can be read/is forthcoming in Entropy, Vol1 Brooklyn, Denver Quarterly, TYPO, Full-Stop and elsewhere. Follow @amybobeda on twitter.