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THE PARADE.

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	178
Issue	5
Published	2001-08-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

   How exhilarating it was to march
   along the great boulevards
   in the sunflash of trumpets
   and under all the waving flags--
   the flag of ambition, the flag of love.

   So many of us streaming along--
   all of humanity, really--
   moving in perfect step,
   yet each lost in the room of a private dream.

   How stimulating the scenery of the world,
   the rows of roadside trees,
   the huge curtain of the sky.

   How endless it seemed until we veered
   off the broad turnpike
   into a pasture of high grass,
   headed toward the dizzying cliffs of mortality.
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