LAURA PONDERS THE ADVANTAGES OF HAVING HIM AROUND
John Grey
The main feature of this town
is the statue of a man
nobody remembers.
The best that can be said
of that equestrian sculpture
is that it provides a little shade
on hotter days.
It's like this man in your house,
occupying more than loving.
You must have had a good
reason to put him there once
but your memory was never
that strong in history.
Still, some days, the heat's
so searing, it feels like
it's out to get you
and he stands, so stoic, between
that flame and you.
So every day, you learn a little more
about why people put up such monuments.
It's not the names,
it's not what they did,
it's purely the construction.
