[Newspoetry] Durango Report: New York, New York

[Mike Lehman]

The link for this poem should be:
<http://durangoherald.webdurango.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/news010916_3.htm>
Note the ironic and subtle rip-off of the Day's Inn (trademark) name
reflected in "Day's End" as the name of the motel.

In other Durango news, a small tragedy takes place druing atime of
national tragedy, updating the story of the cat lost underground which
we reported on some months ago:
<http://durangoherald.webdurango.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/news010916_7.htm>

Mike Lehman wrote:
> 
> The tragedy reaches across the nation
> Across the fruited plain
> And the purple mountains' majesties
> To Durango where the biggest worry normally
> Is the occasional rabid bat
> The manager at the motel where I stay
> Has a sister in New York
> Note that I use the present tense
> For three days she didn't know
> "Every terrorist act that has happened in New York, she has escaped,"
> And so far it remains true
> Although the reason she personally resides in Durango is
> "because of the fact that [in New York] everybody kills everybody,"
> Yet this was somehow
> So different than the retail murder
> That Americans have come to expect
> In the big city
> Strangely enough
> We as a nation now wish it on others
> Who just wish they will be as lucky as her sister