establishment

29 May 2006 at 1:18 pm (1970, Poetry, Undated)

there she goes again
the little old lady
	hair falling out in front
there she goes again
the little old lady
	head bowed down
eyes fixed ascant footstep ahead

there she goes again
the little old lady
	muttering to herself
agonizing each decision
to cross or not to cross
	to turn or not to turn
no to this and nix on that
there she goes
	the little old lady
		tottering home again
the white house
	with the iron fence

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  1. Jonathan (son #3)'s avatar

    Jonathan (son #3) said,

    This poem also appears in the steno notebook labeled “The Shadow Box”.
    There are only minor changes, with no line breaks after the occurences of “the little old lady”, or “the white house”. Rather than line breaks with indentation, he places the second half of these phrases on the same line following extra space.

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