Red Rocks

RED ROCKS

They gather on the front porch—
on lovely Sunday summer afternoons

They pretend to reminisce quaintly—
about their small town literary legacy 
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They sigh and relax in the afterglow—
of delicate Kansas memories

How the bourgeois love to pretend—
to surely be above it all
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The shabby decay and deterioration—
of their little Athens of the Midwest

The former little college town down—
by the Santa Fe Railroad tracks
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The Home of Twinkies and Tackiness—
Iowa Beef and Tyson Chicken Factory

Now the Burlington Railroad doesn’t—
even slow down shipping its freight thru
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The classic old Train Station burned down—
Commercial Street now a Ghost Town

The renovated Granada Theater moody—
reminiscent of SUNSET BLVD days
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And so the Kansas literati gather there—
worshipping at the Red Rocks Temple

Little do they know that Mary White—
haunts the attic up there all alone