Dreams of a Kitten by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Dreams of a Kitten

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we played all the tunes

We put out the fires

and controlled City Hall

we started with nothing

and wound up with it all

You could travel from Kingsbridge

to Queens or mid town

from Highbridge to Bay Ridge,

from up town to down

from the East Side

to the seaside's

sweet summer scenes

we made New York City

our island of dreams

I look at the photos now

brittle with time

of the people I cherished when

the city was mine

O, how I loved

all those radiant smiles

how I long for the days

when we danced in the aisles

Written by Terence Winch.

A céilí (Irish) is a traditional Scottish and Irish social

gathering. In its most basic form, it simply means a social

visit. In contemporary usage, it usually involves dancing and

playing Gaelic folk music, either at a home or a larger concert

at a social hall or other community gathering place.