Sunday, October 20, 2013

William Allen White Library

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE LIBRARY 


It was air-conditioned—
Such a nice place for a kid
Such a fag little bookworm

It smelled inside just like—
The ‘50s Eisenhower Era
So calm & postwar moderné
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I hid away in the stacks—
Row after row of books
Secluded and safe

Reference Room windows—
Tall like some Temple in
The middle of Nowhere
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How did Kansas rate—
Such an Oasis there
In the middle of nothing

Straight up Commercial—
From the Santa Fe tracks
To kitschy Twelfth Avenue?

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