Wednesday, July 23, 2014

A Belch After Lunch In Harvard Square

Goodbye, Square,
And all the crazy people there
Bookstores, restaurants,
It was a village fair.

Brick sidewalks, goodbye!
Spitting and heaving,
Something I'm not at all sorry
To be leaving.

What used to be shops
Are now clones from the mall.
Thank God for the University Bookstore
With which we are blessed, each and all.

Goodbye, Widener,
The Square's raison d'ĂȘtre,
Yes, yes, I know--the teaching
And yet. . . .

The winged word
Is soon forgotten,
What's printed out
On recycled cotton

Is for the ages,
Goodbye, Square of my dreams,
The Square what was, who cares?
It joins other romantic memes.



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