Monday, October 6, 2025

Poem of the Day 10.06.25

the tourists

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

eating twisty cones

and walking six deep
on the boulevard of broken dreams

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

clogging their arteries at food trucks
stopping to take photographs of buildings
and dudes sleeping on the street

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

shopping at the m&m store
at the NBA store
at the NBC store

looking in the windows of tiffany and co.
buying knock-off handbags by the dozen

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

carrying big bags up and down 5th avenue
pulling whiney kids through times square

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

with their foam statue of liberty hats
and their plastic empire states

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

the inbreds
and the euro trash

posing for selfies on the brooklyn bridge
going the wrong way on the D train
joining the protests in union square
and having a picnic in central park

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

top of the rock
never forgetting at the 9/11 memorial

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

their fat smiling faces sailing the hudson river
their fat asses at a disney show

their fat bodies
sweating in the gotham heat

the tourists
are everywhere in this fair city

with their pocket map hopes and dreams

and i swear

it’s enough to make a man
want to pack up all of his shit

and move

every time
the summer
comes snaking around.




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Poem of the Day 10.10.25

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