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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE OLD HIGHWAY, by JAMES SCRUTON First Line: Gone now are the funky museums | |||
Gone now are the funky museums, the reptile gardens and the (not all that) Amazing Rock Formations: shapes of states, silhouettes of the famous. I miss the fake two-headed lizards, the frog with see-through skin, that cavern said to be an outlaw's hideout way back when, every billboard genuine with adjectives and blistered paint -- like the one for Mystery Cabin, where we could witness laws of gravity defied. We didn't know how it was done, or knew and didn't care. We wanted to believe a ball could roll uphill, an egg stand at attention on its narrow end, the glass jar at the entrance kept from levitating by just a handful of coins. Copyright (c) 2001 by The Modern Poetry Association. This poem appears in the September 2001 issue of Poetry Magazine. http://www.poetrymagazine.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE AGE OF DINOSAURS by JAMES SCRUTON THE LIFE SO SHORT by EAMON GRENNAN EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS A CHRISTMAS CAROL by GEORGE WITHER CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 1. TRUE AND CHASTE LOVE by WILLIAM BASSE |
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