The green doors should not be locked. It is not now good weather for prophets. Sun eddies on the steelsmoke air like sinking honey. Each tide pool microcosm spiraling from your hand. Thirty years with want crackling in your hands.
All poets are unemployed nowadays.
My country marches in its sleep. Graceland Cemetery, in the Lakeview district at Irving Park Road and Clark St., opened for business in 1860. The concrete-block grave of George Pullman, the wealthy railroad man, was devised to protect it against desecration by his own workers, whose strike against his company was put down by federal soldiery despite protests from the Governor of Illinois. The Getty monument was built by businessman Henry Harrison Getty for his wife, Carrie Eliza Getty, in 1890. Louis Sullivan was a very great architect who never got to build most of the buildings that were in him, as I feared I wouldn't get to create in public visible form my art.