List of Things to Do in New York City

1. Tango with Basquiat’s ghost
2. Eat pizza with a pigeon below West 4th Street, where the rats grow old, and swap stories of all the times we’ve fallen in love
3. Grow a garden of nasturtiums on a rooftop belonging to someone I’ve never met before
4. Learn Spanish
5. Learn French
6. Dig a hole somewhere in Prospect Park and plant love poems
7. Crash a movie set
8. Go to the library and read as many books as I can in one day
9. Fall asleep beneath a cloud shaped as Manhattan
10. Greenwood Cemetery. Find Basquiat. Dance with him one more time