New Yorkers are judged to be the third most
neurotic people in the country. --news item
Third? That's all? And which are the other two?
Studies demeaning our city can't be true.
Washington, D.C.? San Francisco?
Comparing a kiddie skating rink to a disco.
Boston? Los Angeles? Second City Chicago?
Everlastingly, impossibly no!
New York City's hardcore six million neurotics
Thrive, along with another two million psychotics.
Point to any syndrome or loony complex,
New Yorkers have it, the size of a nuclear bombplex.
Any way you look at the shrinker game,
Neurosis surely is their middle name.
Live here? The self-disrepecting set is hot to--
He or she or they'd be crazy not to.
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