new jersey

-

seaside lifeguard's one

problem - girlfriend's lasagna's

not quite up to mom's

(1-15)

 

in millionaire's porsche,
you'd think 'tlantic city'd shine
on fourth - it doesn't
(1-12)





hoboken summers -
tight families, no place to hide -
you'd be crooning too
(1-12)

acrid stench, 'nother truck

stripped - steamy sunday morning

on the garden state

(9-14)





bumper to bumper,
top down through bay head sea breeze -
labor day mem'ries
(1-07)






lavallette houses
only some are still lived in
from labor day on
(9-05)






library perched high
on rock cliff above highway-
gold leaves, dark tunnel
(11-09)

bagel, lox 'n' coffee -

at yom kippur, grim resolve

t'face jersey city

(9-14)

pollution sunset
frames giants traffic, wasteland -
what's this 'garden state?'
(9-05)

hackensack waitress -

her fam'ly's turkey 'n' gossip,

she'd die without it

(9-14))

signs for hoboken,
vast wetlands ready to freeze -
diesel cloud sunset
(11-09)






delaware water
gap's winter wooded stillness-
this is new jersey?
(1-07)




 

burlington farmhouse

guest bed creaks - yule secrets

'f quaker ancestors

(9-14)

atlantic city -
hear lu's story at new year:
died at slot machine
(12-11)





warm dark eyes, fur hood -
she tries hard to imagine
life b'yond paramus
(1-12)






garden state turnpike
window down, february
another car stripped
(7-05)

jersey's image falls -

in march squall, a cowboy finds

turnpike restrooms locked

(9-14)

bus from oranges -
holland tunnel, knicks final,
they go dutch on fares
(12-11)