Name: The Poet in New York
Duration: P00H01M36S
Description: 1917 – Millay graduates Vassar and moves to bohemian Greenwich Village in New York City. She becomes an actress with the Provincetown Players and scrapes by publishing poems and other writing in various magazines.

The Poet in New York

from No Clothes on Ragged Island by Ghost Ghost

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1917 – Millay graduates Vassar and moves to bohemian Greenwich Village in New York City. She becomes an actress with the Provincetown Players and scrapes by publishing poems and other writing in various magazines.

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After all these years to strike New York in braids.
It's an instant education all class and no grades.
Buildings everywhere a million stories high,
clothes hanging in the breeze, children rolling by,
And the noise, good God, you can see the noise.

After all these years to have you here with me,
Two girls from Maine, in the center of everything.
Windows everywhere, billboards way up high,
Smokestacks up above belching to the sky,
And the noise, good God, can you see the noise?

It takes some getting used to, all this excess profanity.
Welcome to Bohemia, here girls drink for free.
It's true there isn't quite enough to go around
But we'll make it through alright, you know I own this town
And the boys, oh God have you seen the boys?

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from No Clothes on Ragged Island, released March 1, 2010
Copyright © 2010 Peckham
Copyright (p) 2010 Ireland, Peckham, Ward

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Loud/folk/experimental rockers. Formerly based in NYC, now scattered across the USA. Led by Karl Ward and Kevin Peckham, with all kinds of madness brought by Mark Christensen, Tim Bartlett, and Charlie Kemmerer. Pants very, very optional.

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