Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Ozymandias 'N' Things - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Ozymandias ‘N’ Things

 

I met a UPS driver from an antique land

Who said – “Down the road two shopping malls

Decay along the road, on either hand

Broken doors lead into empty, echoing halls

 

The blown-out signs are ghostly anymore

Their electric lights are dead; the letters decay

Around the logo of each long-dead store

And in their emptiness they seem to say:

 

Look upon my works, ye mighty –

 

Sears, Radio Shack, Montgomery Ward, Mr. Pickwick, Circuit City, Bonwit Teller, Gimbel’s, Brooks Brothers, Woolworth’s, Marshall Field’s, Kresge’s, Blockbuster, Border’s, CompUSA, Sharper Image, Tower Records, Toys R Us, B. Dalton, Levitz, Waldenbooks, Thom McAn, Linens N Things, KB toys, Mervyn’s, Lord & Taylor, Joske’s

 

- and despair”

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