I am where dreamers go

I am where dreamers go
in search of fame and fortune.
I am filled with famous corners
where a famous writer wrote
or famous poets preened.
In my coffee shops and bookstores
you will see the mind adrift
with the lurid and fantastic
with improbable improbabilities
and unlikely outcomes.
In my streets I hold,
the nausea and putrefaction,
the grime, the char, the grease,
the wine, the bar, the piece
of dream that broke off
their shoulders when they fell -
and picked themselves up
and shook it all off
and cleaned up their act
and walked right across
to my magical stores
and famous corners
in search of fame and fortune.