Welcome To Jersey City

I believed I saw you at the top of Carteret Street Beloved* But it wasn't you Just the inspiration of you I thought I saw you at the end of Ocean Avenue Chinaski* But it wasn't you Just a whiff of you I walked to Liberty Park And I saw you In a ray of sunlight Bandini* But it wasn't you Just a shadow of you I thought I saw you On the boat With your laughing eyes Manolin* But it wasn't you Just the sea that remembered you And there at last I saw you My Little Prince* on your cloud-tree This time it's safe I see you Aby M. P.S.*** : Beloved is Toni Morrison's character in Beloved Chinaski is Charles Bukowski's Character Bandini is Arturo Bandini's character Manolin is Ernest Hemingway's character in The old man and the sea The Little Prince is Antoine de Saint Exupéry's character in The Little Prince