Steven Ogg Instagram – MY ODE 2 NYC You had me for 20 years saw me with no money watched as I faxed the changes in you became changes in me. You broke me raised me up battered me about provided so much and then took it all away. Your in-your-face-anger then Your in-your-face-anger today draining me as always. You visited my first apartment; with the 3AM garbage trucks. We sweated like never before that first humid summer; urine fumes filled the air. You saw me cycle everywhere went through a cab windshield doored too many times smashed cars with our chain that weekend in jail. We walked 90 minutes to acting class dead of winter from the village to UES to save money for bagel/coffee. We returned to Olive Garden to pack away the free breadsticks to later have for our dinner. Haunted by your streets visiting this and that “It happened there…” “Here is where we…” Once overwhelming unable to visit the weight of your ghosts the 20 years the pains now lightened now okay with this different hand in mine; comforting/strengthening watching your heavy calloused hand disappear down 9th Avenue. #nyc #manhattan #apples #IwillRemainWestCoast #poetry Manhattan, New York