Christmas 1972

Christmas 1972

When i lived in new york

poor as a mouse door

i would go on fifth avenue

shopping the windows

but i  got a white knit hat 

for my sister at abraham-strauss

then there at scrbiners

or coulda been doubledays

and it was on about christmas

i saw danny kaye

brilliant, welcome, witty, immortal,
adored by the store help

i crossed ore a portal

walter mitty in dream trance

in life's dance

a corker

a short time new yorker.

would catch the train outta there

but carry sprite danny

sprite danny
and the hat for my sister

in  a place

in my memory.

until this very moment

when here it is look here and
you stand in front of me.

-Jack Vaughan