WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BROOKLYN

Black
white
Latino
Asian

as my father said
it takes all kinds
to make a world

sure
we come complete

with
sirens wailing
subways fraying
landlords taking

cab drivers
honking their
proverbial
horns

suburb
it ain’t

but people star
instead
of cars

bridges talk
instead of walls

what I like
about Brooklyn
is how

people sit
on their front stoops
at night
when the moon is full

instead of
in their
backyards