New York To Be Frank
from En Route Hosted by Jonathan Hirsch
A friend called today asking me how I like New York City. I wanted to tell her how I really felt: That Frank Sinatra can go fuck himself, “If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere,“ as if residing here is like making love on a waterbed that’s half-full or half-empty; That New York City is three fingers of whisky that could corrode a toilet bowl, neat; you mask the mouth fire with a gritty poker face, compliment its notes, and check your chest for hair; That the Big Apple is a collection of Greatest Hits compact discs, and to be a New Yorker is to be a model on a photo shoot for a motivational poster-- posing at the foot of a mountain you’re never actually going to climb; Instead, I told her what I tell the cousin I see once a year at my family Christmas party: “It’s great. You should come visit sometime.” Written & Performed Drew Farrell Produced & Edited Jonathan Hirsch
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