Our Chicago
Our Chicago is the Magnificent Mile, from Walton to Randolph;
It's Oak and Elm, Dearborn, State, and Rush streets;
It's Lincoln and Millennium parks;
It's the Art Institute, for Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, and Lautrec;
It's the Apollo, for plays, the Back Room, for jazz;
It's Il Mulino, for authentic Italian, Le Colonial, for real Vietnamese,
Bistro 110 and RL, for tasty lunches; it's the Drake Hotel;
And it's Linda and L.D., for wide-eyed, joie-de-vivre excitement,
An appetite for enthusiasm, passion, and happiness,
The unbridled enjoyment of devouring the day, the moment,
Taking pleasure to a transcendent soul-zone,
Just because we can do so, let go effortlessly,
Revel in whatever's next on love's to-be-continued agenda —
Our innocent surrender to the senses' sense of endless adventure.
11/03/10
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