Peter Pan

PETER PAN PARK

Up the staircase—
with my flashlight

Past the library up into—
the inner sanctum above
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She was full of memories—
it’s all she had left back then

She told me about when—
J. M. Barrie came to town
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WAW greeted Barrie at the—
Classic Old Santa Fe Station 

With the high school band—
playing the welcome songs
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Dedicating Peter Pan Park—
to the great British playwright

A Lake, an Amphitheater—
even a Monkey Island 
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Duplicating Hyde Park there—
in London where Miss Barrie

Erected her statue overnight—
to the Youth he loved 
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The same with WAW—
worshipping his daughter

Whatever WAW did—
he did simply FIRST CLASS