A Neighborhood Concert (Simon and Garfunkel Reunion Concert in Central Park, 1981)

A Neighborhood Concert (Simon and Garfunkel Reunion Concert in Central Park, 1981)

We all cheered
when Paul Simon said it
because we knew
the neighborhood stretched
from Central Park
a fine and fancy ramble
to the East Side
to the West Side
to Brooklyn
to the Bronx
to Queens
even to Staten Island.

The neighborhood concert
included sellers of loose joints
lovers and haters
of Ed Koch,
lovers of madness,
lovers of wild.
As we all walked off
to look for America,
we found it again.

And lost it
in the wars.

But looking at the troubled water
and the bridge over it,
we sailed on somehow
easing our minds

when we just couldn't

anymore