For a moment
walking on the Church Street Mall
walking on the Church Street Mall
under a clear blue sky
the statue of Big Joe Burrell
becomes a
memory of
the man too soon gone.
And then it is
frozen bronze.
Walking past the statue of Big Joe Burrell
on the Church Street Mall
memories lost.Zphx, 20101113
We shall lose one advantage of a man's dying if we are to have a statue of him forthwith. A man will have to add a clause to his will, "No statue to be made of me." H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 18, 1859
We shall lose one advantage of a man's dying if we are to have a statue of him forthwith. A man will have to add a clause to his will, "No statue to be made of me." H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 18, 1859
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