Monday, July 1, 2019

Show Me the Place, 90


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

90: Old Ironsides; Boston, Mass.; early 1990s

I’d taught that poem many years—
Had had my students memorize
Holmes’ famous lines—all disappears
If you don’t work to stop demise.

I toured the ship—bought souvenirs.
And mumbled Holmes from time to time.
Did fellow tourists close their ears?
How could they—from my voice sublime!





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