紐約,紐約!站在時代廣場的街口,突然想起了Kim Bernes的Bette Davis Eyes,或許歌中的她就是紐約?
She'll expose you
When she snows you
。。。
And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
或許還應該給多變的紐約加上She'll rain you。從小雨中的第五大道帶來的蕭瑟心境,剎那被絢麗的霓紅和熙攘喧鬧的街車路人粉碎。
紐約就象少女的心境,從寧靜的自由女神島到陰沉的LOWER MANHATTAN,從第五大道的宛如飄灑音符的小雨到世貿舊址淒婉的黃花表述的追憶,處處是誘人的感染力。站在帝國大廈的門口抽煙,看着來往的行人時,很感觸為什麼黑白的色彩會統治這麼多的DOWNTOWN,WHERE IS THE WOMAN IN RED?
時代廣場就是那個紅衣女郎,置身片刻,立刻被她的繁華艷麗所籠罩:無邊的霓紅海洋,摩肩接踵的路人,流水邊的往來車輛。幾秒中內,所有的思緒都消失了,融化在黃昏下的絢爛。耳邊想起了HUEY LOWIS AND THE NEWS的歌:
New York, New York is everything they say
And no place that I'd rather be
Where else can you do a half a million things
And all at a quarter to three
When they play their music, ooh that modern music
The like it with a lot of style
But it's still that same old back beat rhythmThat really drives them wild.
不遠處前方的三角洲上,一個黑人藝人開始吹奏排簫。悠揚的音樂流過功率強勁的音響,飄浮在時代廣場的上空,穿過閃閃的霓紅,滲入黃昏的天色里。
吃過晚飯從旅館走到HUDSON河邊,隔水遙望對岸的MANHATTAN夜景,驚異地發現水中樓宇燈火的倒影象水晶一樣亮麗。一天的興奮後,倦意開始滋生,泛泛地象粼粼的河光。