I shouldn’t be staring at a screen.

I should be buying goji berries

and chocolate 

and maybe some real food

but Fairway is too many blocks away

for today’s version of me.

Living in New York

means a great deal of walking.

Yesterday night I was trying to get home

I didn’t know I was crossing into Queens

from Brooklyn

to my left the stereotypical New York view

skyscrapers and water.

What am I doing here?

I love the Chrysler building

with clouds wrapped around it

but beauty is overrated.

Especially a beauty like this,

indifferent like a movie star.