if you let it- this city can be so romantic. well i think summer nights are romantic anyway, and if you happen to be picnicking in meridian hill park at ten pm, your chances for romance increase-significantly. 

and if there is a blonde woman with a guitar singing joni mitchell? well then you know two little girls with blonde curls will be dancing to their mother's song.

and you will want to twirl with them- especially in that light- where the street-lamps hug the trees.

and maybe a familiar face will appear- and you will shake his hand because you have to- because he looks like someone you made breakfast for once-

eggs and toast, a walk to the beach where you dug your feet in the sand and listened to his story-

that was a long time ago, although you're not be that old- looking at these stars makes you feel wrinkled with age.