Sushi bar, Irving Place

Three quarter’s of the chefs are Hispanic.
A long faced man reads Ezra Pound.
The waitresses are Japanese.

Had a whisky in the oldest bar in town.
O Henry’s favourite, founded Eighteen Sixty Four.

A man called Bob told me next to nowt.
Asked for a Jamieson’s, the barman blinked.

The Hispanic chefs dab with Oriental efficiency.
Artigas, statuesque on the Americas
Should approve. Exiles adapt, stoically.


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