“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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