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New York Magic Mountain

Sailing into New York Harbor

past verdigris-statued Liberty

was I not latest Columbus,

if lower deck passenger

then still

the Drake or Raleigh?

Hardly, had my stomach been first to say.

Anxious to match the Atlantic

my reading was

Mann’s Mountain

but where Castorp and Joachim fevered towards death

I had just turned merely pale,

billow queasy.

Land balance

lay in Manhattan’s

grid of everywhere peopled

squares and blocks and heights

the human multi-Broadway

of uptown downtown

Bowery to Yonkers

Village to Central Park

Big Apple city health