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The Invasion of Indian Manhole Covers

March 18, 2005 posted by indiatime | Leave a Comment

“…The beauty of manhole covers–what of that?
Like medals struck by a great savage khan,
Like Mayan calendar stones, unliftable, indecipherable…”

- Karl Shapiro (1913-2000, The Bourgeois Poet)

Pulitzer prize winning poet Karl Shapiro once wrote a beautiful poem about