The last Campbell’s tomato soup can
of the twentieth century is going to
the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
That is an example of a sentence
Another is this from a CEO in Fortune
“You die in either case, but this way you get
to do it proactively,” where the adverb
makes the sentence I’m walking amid
the tourists on Bleecker Street the riffraff
the students with backpacks the bums and
a good old-fashioned New York feeling
hits me from head to toe a misanthropic snarl
the urge to kick a stranger in the pants,
and if you don’t smoke you feel as if you do
(David Lehman)
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