Set in Flushing, Queens, the story follows Sammy, Little Jimmy and Ernie — three small time crooks trying to find a chicken to cockfight.

Talk show legend Joe Franklin discovers an abandoned baby on his doorstep.

Steve Dalachinsky, with the aid of Yuko Otomo and cinematographer Andrew Lampert, was given the chance to direct his dream film. This is not that, but rather the result of what they shot that day presented in real time as they filmed it. In the end, this is always what Lampert wanted the film to be; what Steve wanted is another story heard on the soundtrack of the images gathered within.

SILENT POEM: YIELD (Part 2) features Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo alongside Joans himself and others. The short film was shot in Paris in 1990.