JAPANESE TOURISTS

Leaflets
and posters speak
about my play
a weary priest
walks by
on the lower east side
offers a pater noster
and says he will
by faith, be there
at the theater,
six Japanese tourists
eager not to kill time
in Times Square
promise me to be early
after I give away
a couple of complimentary
tickets for first night
raising my expectation
about this new play
on displaced persons
after the war
which gets a good review.