A Bleecker Balcony - a haiku

Back on Bleecker Street
No luxury condos in sight
Only old New York__

Tht view is from a 9th floor balcony overlooking Bleecker Street on Mercer is the John C Paulson Center, a multi-storyed glass and steel mongrossity with classrooms, study Space, athletics, housing, dining, and a community space none of which is accessible to the community. According to the website Public Open Spaces: The adjacent outdoor pedestrian pathways and ground-level outdoor areas (like the Greene Street Walk) remain accessible to the neighborhood, but indoor facility wandering by non-affiliates is restricted by security. NYU has also refused union organzing.

The billionaire dream epitomizes the lack of taste from the wealthy and I know that Paulson has good taste in art, having visited his office with its spleni Calder mobiles. The Center shows nothing, but an eye sore unlike the view from the 9th balcony__

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A May Bee - Bleecker Street Balcony with a Vu

Bleecker Street afternoon
The 9th floor balcony
Balmy end of May
My birthday
I banished the noises
The traffic
The voices of pedestrians
On the street
The hum of ACs
But not the breeze
Not the Buzz of a scout bee
Seeking sweetness
We have met before
He bigger than the end of April
A brief landing on the railing
Nothing of interest
And he is off
Leaving only the wind
And moi
Un homme tres vieux.