New York state of mind

... I was a teenager dreaming of being an architect and cannot draw my eyes from its luscious curves. In Greenwich Village you're imagining Lou Reed in some seedy hole going do-do-do with all the coloured girls, Dylan blowing his lungs out for a dollar ...

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