¶ (unarchived poem) · 4 March 2007
Several years ago, when the Orange Line in Boston was moved underground, the MBTA solicited poems from grade-school kids about where they would go on the new line, and had them printed on the walls in various stations. While going through some old notebooks today I found the one that I copied down, verbatim, from a wall in Haymarket station:
No attribution was provided. If you wrote this when you were 8, I hope you're still writing now.
I took the Orange Line to the stone age family
The colors are white in the land
Their houses were made with stone
They have only Rock 'n' Roll music
They have bald heads
When it rains it breaks the city
The food tastes awful
I don't want to go there again.
No attribution was provided. If you wrote this when you were 8, I hope you're still writing now.