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- From: marek@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marek Lugowski)
- Subject: Re: postcard/harvard square -- Z / Marek
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:30:42 GMT
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- In article <1i3u4tINN89r@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- bu016@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Zita Marie Evensen) writes:
- >
- >
- > Postcard from Harvard Square
- >
- >misty rain wets the sidewalks ...
- ;rain mists the sidewalks
- >chalk pictures disappear into the water film
- ;chalk pix dissolve in the watery film
- >on the pavement and mona lisa's rosey red smile
- ;and mona lisa's warm-pink smile
- >takes on an ash-pink hue.
- >
- >a runner sprints through the graffiti-ed brick walk.
- ;dashing through graffitti-on-brick
- >under his strides are silent messages
- ;a runner strides over messages
- >about hating war and teaching peace,
- ;about hating and teaching, loving and peaceing
- >of loves, lost loves, and pink floyd
- ;in the time of love, lost loves and pink floyd
- >and "please keep the surface free of graffiti!"
- ;"please keep the surface free of graffiti!"
- >
- >nearby , a tree wears a ring
- ;xxx
- >of flower-painted stones...
- ;xxx
- >an investitute of royalty
- ;xxx
- >on the square?
- ;xxx
- >
- >twanging guitars reverberate
- ;twang guitars reverberating
- >as street singers prepare for their minstrelsy
- ;street singers preparing for minstrelsy
- >and around the corner a talented drummer
- >blends his beat with catchy rock and roll
- ;levens his beat into rock and roll
- >as coins clink into an upturn fedora.
- ;as coins sporadically clink into an upturned fedora
- >
- >window washers admire their masterpieces
- ;window washers admire their own masterpieces
- >of shiny spotless windows ...
- ;shiny shiny shininess
- >their worl perfect ... evanescent
- ;xxx
- >as the mischievous summer rain
- >tiptoes on the panes.
- ;[also:] fingerpaints the panes.
- >
- >enticing aromas from eateries fill the square
- ;xxx
- >as they cater to the palates of a palette of people .
- ;xxx
- >they fill up the corner,
- ;xxx [who, the aromas?]
- >lured by the myth of harvard square.
- ;xxx
- >tennis shoes, high heels, mocassins, birkenstocks,
- >and bare feet cover the silent stone missives ...
- ;bare feet possess the missives on stones
- >they are cobblestones again.
- ;the cobblestones, again.
- >
- >in the early evening,
- >clowns and jesters, and jugglers
- >transform the square into a medieval world
- >of magic, trickstery, and wonderment
- >as the crowd of rainbow people
- >share magical, mystical moments together.
- ;[this is rapidly getting surreal; are you didn't ingest x at about here? :)]
- >as slowly as it grew, the crowed thins ...
- >tourists go home to nurse their aching feet ...
- >jesters, jugglers, and troubadours
- >disappear as if into a time-warp ...
- >and the young intelligentsia walk back
- >to the realities and ivy'd halls
- >behind the wrought-iron fenced legend
- >called Harvard.
- [um, what about all the high school kids from Peabody, Watertown, Newton and
- Brookline and all the college kids from UMass/Wellesley/BU/BC and MIT? -- none
- qualify as jugglers, let alone young intelligentsia. Most of the people in
- the restaurants are denizens of the People's Republic of Cambridge with
- no connection to Hawad... The red line brings many a foot to the square.]
-
- -- Marek
-