TELL ME A STORY
By Robert Penn Warren
[A]
Long ago, in Kentucky,
I, a boy, stood
By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard
The great geese hoot northward.
By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard
The great geese hoot northward.
I could not see them,
there being no moon
And the stars sparse. I heard them.
And the stars sparse. I heard them.
I did not know what
was happening in my heart.
It was the season
before the elderberry blooms,
Therefore they were going north.
Therefore they were going north.
The sound was passing northward.
[B]
Tell me a story.
In this century, and
moment, of mania,
Tell me a. story.
Tell me a. story.
Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
The name of the story
will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.
But you must not pronounce its name.
Tell me a story of deep delight.
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