Kendall Merriam: The Auditorium
Do you know who Boris Johnson is?
thought by many an ill-spoken boor
but he realized the value and need
for the arts in England
and as Prime Minister
put 2 Billion of Great Britain’s budget
behind creative minds
of that small country
Rockland’s small-minded City Council
over the years has tried
to squeeze as much money as it can
out of the old High School
discouraging those who want to
fix the roof,
Kendall Merriam was born and raised in Rockland. He has a history degree from Gordon College and pursued graduate studies in military and maritime history at the University of Maine at Orono and Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Conn. He received grants to study historical research at Colonial Williamsburg and the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Merriam has been widely published, including in Katyn W Literaturze (Katyn in Literature), a Polish anthology of literary works about the WWII Katyn Forest Massacre by 120 international authors, including Czeslaw Milosz. Most of Merriam’s work has a definite muse – family, friends, and strangers – with life’s larger themes of work, love, loss and death.
put in an elevator,
replace the chipped old seats
destroying the memories of the beauty
of Corinne Simmons and Linda Mountfort
in the senior class play
and Wayne Johnson’s political career
think what could be done
if the town did not tax
the yellow brick building
but instead threw money
behind a reasonable renovation
for a new beauty of the auditorium
matching that of new generations
of lobster queens
driven by young mechanics
taught the graces by teachers
in our auditorium
Kendall Merriam, Home, 7/10/2020 8:58 AM
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