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Modern New Columbia beckons busloads of NY, NY refugees 'Twould be one more C-AC Board of Trade triumph by Ed Waggener It is conceivable that poet Robert H. Stone's classic poem, The Modern New Columbia, written in the style of poet Emma Lazarus' The New Colossus, could inspire busloads of refugees from the repressive, police-state coffee houses of New York City. Some may already be able to envision the sight: The busloads of thinkers, philosophers, poets and stockbrokers met entering Columbia on the Martin Luther King Boulevard at Holladay Place with the Adair County High School Band playing the city's national anthem, "Columbia, the Gem of Kentucky," as a recorded reading of Robert H. Stone's The New Columbia is read to the arriving freed masses, protecting their Kindles, iPads and laptops from their tears of joy as the caravan makes it's way to the Southwest Corner of the Columbia Square and Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom to use all the open Wi-Fi at the Cafe on the Square their hearts desire. Freedom to loaf and drink coffee or not. Freedom to sit and talk and think and create and sell stocks and bonds and derivatives to their hearts content. Already, The New Columbia sonnet, written in the Italian 8-6 style rather than the 4-4-4-2 Shakespearean style, as every Adair Countian probably already knows, has drawn accolades from abroad. A reader in Los Angeles has already told Robert Stone that the poem is his best yet. In a way, the prospect is even more inspiring than seeing busloads of Canadian tourists coming to spend their money here. After all, who among us can distinguish between a Canadian and a New Yorker. They all look alike to us. The only way we can tell them apart is by their money. This story was posted on 2011-02-13 06:53:52
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