The Photographer at Drive East

At the Drive East.   

The man next to me 

Photographing the presentation

Of Drive East, Indian Dance and Music 

At Dixon Place off the Bowery,

(Once famous only for It's 
Bums)
Had a garden on his arm.  

At least that is what I saw,

Until I realized the snake above it.

It was his life story, he said.

Ah, the Garden of Eden, I thought

Until I really looked at the snake;

Unfinished, just outlined,-

Mouth opened and snarling -  

Was not the seductive smiling snake

That took Eve by surprise with that

Lucious Apple.

No, this was something else.

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