Sunday afternoon in an dark bar way downtown, between Wall Street and King Street, a gray deserted bar with poets in the back room, and the bar's name had "lion" in it though it should have had dust or error in it, next to a closed strip club, and two consecutive poets, each wearing stocking caps, each reading their poems from marbleized composition notebooks, here five minutes already and it seems like group therapy in hell, and I can no longer wait for a pause but stand and go out into the fresh urban Sunday air, blue skies, unchain my bicycle, ride toward the Hudson bike path, unaware of the Twin Towers because they're too tall and too near, and the path is alive with rollerbladers and bikers and strollers, and I don't stop riding for a hundred blocks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html