She liked the Village
because the lack of grid
and the lack of numbers
and the general lack of order
left her feeling somewhere outside of New York
in a foreign land
where things were done differently than in NYC.

Of course, when she explained this
to a native of Greenwich
he looked at her like she was a crazy one.

“This is as much the City
as anything else!”
he proclaimed.

She felt very isolated then
which is
itself
also a New York experience.

Though she loved going down
foreign streets
she had never travelled far
from New York
at all.