NY High City

Witnessed from last week,
Three different occasions,
The following scenes:

Amusing commute:
High school girls high on "gummies."
Loud curses and smacks.

Sidewalk. Homeless man,
Flying high, unbelts, looks for
Bedbugs in his crotch.

Bridge and tunnel teens
Out to score Oxycontins.
Pre-party ritual.

Packing

A lesson learned from the Italy trip:
Not all pharmacies resemble Duane Reade.
On this trip,
I'm bringing my dolls,
A pharma-cornucopia in a Ziploc bag:
antimalarial
antibiotic
antidiarrhea
antiemetic
NSAID.

Hmm, maybe I need an antihistamine.