Time Warp New Year

 I have been hungry to write this poem 
 ever since November clipped the days 
 blue and short. The horrible thing is that…
  
 I walked past the General Grant Memorial
 defending a song by keeping it on, pausing only
 to remember when there was no snow.
  
 Two days ago a man catcalled me saying
 Hey! Relax!
  
 Some things are just human, like never drinking
 enough water, or always choosing the bench which
 faces the sun.
  
 Or wanting to feel new and different. As I sat there,
 a man threw snow at a tree and left walking west
 in the other direction.