I owe you a certain sort of apology.
I spent so much time
finding places to show you
of my New York
but they were not truly New York.
They were instead the New York
I most wanted to show you:
it’s quiet places
the green spaces
where it is hard to see a building
despite being oh so close
to oh so many.

I wanted you to see it
and thought you would like it
but you are not from the city
and naturally proved more interested
in the bustling hustlers
and streetwise seamstresses
than the isolated
solitary lonely locales I adore.
I should not have been so disappointed
by your desires.
I should have known
where to take you.

I was saddened
that the city you sought
was not the one I wanted to display.
I behaved poorly and
I do not imagine
it will happen again.