Naked City

Spin Cycle

By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 01, 2017

Naked City

Feeling small
The immensity of it all
New York City
East Side, West Side
All around the town
People as ants
Scurrying about
Museums and theatre
Swaths of art
Overwhelming
Spiraling Guggenheim
Ramped up with
Contemporary China
Social sculpture
Powerful and poignant
Spin cycles
Stunned at every turn
Stops to pee
At every level
Wright was thoughtful
Tiny closets for
Creature comforts
Beasts that we are
TKTS in Times Square
Light traffic
Tuesday and Halloween
Ghouls and action heroes
Pretty girls with
Painted faces
Such a fun night
Everyone as someone else
Like Patti Lupone
With a limp as
Helena Rubinstein
In War Paint
Arch rival Christine Ebersole
As Elizabeth Arden
Magnificent divas
Duking it out
Beauty queens
Intermission chat
John Douglas Thompson
Between shows
Bringing Carousel
To Broadway
His first musical a
Non singing role
Such a great day
Humbled by the scale
Of restless city
Nightcap at
National Arts Club
In Tiffany lounge
Revelers in costumes
Remnants of a celebration
Then up to 7C
How suite it is
To sleep perchance
To dream