BROOKLYN
(On Thursday, April 14th, 2011 in honor of “Poem in your Pocket Day,” the Park Slope Geriatric Day Center Poets, Brooklyn Poet Laureate, Tina Chang and Alzheimer’s Poetry Project founder, Gary Glazner created the poem “Brooklyn.”)
What Brooklyn sounds like depends on what you’re listening for.
Brooklyn has all kinds of sounds: children playing, birds, traffic.
You ought to know what Brooklyn smells like!
Brooklyn does not smell like chocolate.
It smells like fresh air.
It’s odorless.
It depends on where you live.
Brooklyn tastes like a slice of cold watermelon.
Brooklyn tastes like a slice of hot pizza.
Brooklyn tastes like a slice of Junior’s cheesecake,
with strawberries and whipped cream on top!
Brooklyn feels like home.
I feel good! (Sing it like James Brown.)
Baby Juliet says, “Brooklyn feels like an open window or goo, goo, goo!”
What would I say to the Brooklyn Bridge?
It depends on if you’re coming or going.
I would say, “Brooklyn Bridge you’re grand.”
Brooklyn is a great place!
Ride the Cyclone.
Eat a hotdog.
You can walk on the boardwalk,
or go “under the boardwalk, boardwalk.” (Sing it like the Drifters.)
First time I saw Brooklyn we were driving up from the South.
I was asleep in my family’s car.
I woke up and saw all the lights.
I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
Does heaven look like Brooklyn, with Marty at the gates?
We will rejoice when we get to heaven!
We will rejoice when we get to Brooklyn!
Brooklyn is like a botanical garden with all these different people.
I feel good when I am in Brooklyn.
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