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STEAM SHOVELED NEEDED by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: MY MIND IS LIKE THE PANAMA CANAL
Last Line: AND ALL TRAFFIC IS HALTED.
Subject(s): REASON; THOUGHT; INTELLECT; RATIONALISM; BRAIN; MIND; INTELLECTUALS; THINKING;

MY mind is like the Panama Canal.
Great ocean-going ideas
Lie moored in the locks
Until my thought rises to the level
Where they can proceed.
Every now and then
There is a brainslide in the Culebra Cut
And all traffic is halted.



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