london bridge is falling down

Every viewer’s glee at Godzilla’s swipe The Fight Club credit card towers, Hold hands and swing the bridge Whomever you caught Sift their contents until powdered Build it up with silver and gold Silver and gold Silver and gold Soup cans for needy barrels, Glass candlesticks at the Goodwill, Cerebral fluid leak, see Dr. Google […]

Very Small Things

As the lesson said, “mustard seed,” I thought there must be smaller things than that, things so small that is the size of the faith that I have, like, perhaps a speck of dust. Last night I was taking the train home and suddenly realized that I had no money, and would never have any […]

Small Animals

I thought Sardi’s was a tourist trap. And I thought I could not afford it. My way of going to see Broadway shows has always been to eat a slice of pizza beforehand, because after paying for a ticket that is all that seems prudent. I happened to be meeting a friend in Times Square, […]

Merchant’s House

I turned the hottest corner in the world and almost walked past the 1832 home of only one family, ever: the Tredwells. I would like to put in, here, that it is the oldest something or other, but that isn’t really the point of the place. It is very old for a surviving building in […]