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Critics Under Statues
Beneath statues of Civil War heros On bronze horses, Green with age And victory, sits The ragged infantry Of every park, Pairs of drunks Passing bottles Back and forth...
Victory Near the Plaza
“Sherman Led by Victory” Is a St. Gaudens statue, A cast-bronze allegory. With Victory as a woman Pulling his horse’s bridle Out of a sculptor’s stable. Leading him off the pedestal Into a bronze fable. I...
An Old Radio in Atlantic City
It drew people to it like a fire,The needle floating up and down its dial,Fishing for the news. It was a horror house,A band-stand, Europe in flames,A dummy and...
Nine Numbers
On card after card he sees it. Along with a harsh identity photograph And his preposterous signature, A black line struggling into a name. The face is Irish, and his name. And even some...
