Metro North Gothic — Nuts

a mean streets villanelle

Joe Váradi 🇭🇺
No Crime in Rhymin’
2 min readJun 15, 2019

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Two bucks and your taste buds are in heaven
Grab yourself a wax bag fulla nutrition
Whether you’re taking the Uptown A, or the Seven

Just aks my cousin from Queens — Kevin
He’ll tell ya, tho’ he don’t get no commission
Two bucks and your taste buds are in heaven

These guys are on every corner, sellin’
In Brooklyn, Queens, da Bronx, or Manhattan
Whether you’re taking the Uptown A, or the Seven

I’m right here, you don’t gotta be yellin’
These nuts are a long-standing tradition
Two bucks and your taste buds are in heaven

Oh, wow, you found one!? Congrats, Magellan!
Enjoy the fruits of your harrowing mission
Whether you’re taking the Uptown A, or the Seven

He may look like a Rikers Island felon
Well, the job ain’t exactly nuclear fission —
Two bucks and your taste buds are in heaven
Whether you’re taking the Uptown A, or the Seven

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Joe Váradi 🇭🇺
No Crime in Rhymin’

Editor of No Crime in Rhymin' | Award-Winning Translator | ..."come for the sarcasm, stay for my soft side"