Monday, June 24, 2019

Show Me the Place, 83


“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior in As You Like It (2.1)

83: Thomas Paine—Various Sites (Bordentown, NJ, June 2009; New Rochelle, NY, September 2009)

He wrote those pamphlets—helped the cause:
The Revolutionary War.
He’d learned what words could do—were for—
And wrote for years, with little pause.

His Common Sense became the first
Best-seller in our history.
His words still resonate with me—
And some are like a rocket’s burst.

We saw a home—a statue, too.
We saw his grave (though he’s not there—
His body? No one’s sure just where.)
I prize his gift to me and you.










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