I Hit Broadway

      Photograph is of the 1410 Building where I worked

In April of 1964, two months after my first wife and I had wed;
I got a job in NYC’s garment district, so off to New Jersey did we head!
I was working in the showroom, for the company, my father their leading rep;
“Queen Casuals”, at the 1410 Building, on Broadway, where all the cats were hep!
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We took an apartment in Perth Amboy, close to some Uncles and some Aunts;
Each weekday, I took the bus to the Big Apple, an hour each way I spent!
I was supposed to learn the business, but I soon felt a total ennui;
Because for years, I had traveled with my father, adept at sales did I be!
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But at lunch, I walked up to Times Square, just a couple blocks away;
To watch the cornucopia of people, that incited poems many days!
Finally, after five weeks, I knew that I had to leave;
Ohio was my place of passion, myself no longer deceived!
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So we came home to my numismatics, I was a coin dealer once again;
Maybe I should have stayed in New York City, and have become a thespian!
To this day, I have always wondered, if I missed my casting call;
Possibly, I could have become famous, and been an actor, best of all!
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                                   The garment district
                           Should have been the theatre
                                    I missed my calling