Dog on the Median
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Dog on the Median of the Kennedy Expressway, Chicago
Listen to this poem, as set to music by composer Jasper Wald Sussman and premiered by Madison Chamber Choir in May 2017.
I keep coming back to that dog running west next to the fast lane along the concrete meridian between eight lanes of traffic and wishing I could have stopped although it was impossible four lanes of us nose to tail seventy miles an hour that dog, thin, grey, loping doggedly along no Samaritan in sight nowhere to go but on |