Somewhere, Under the Rainbow


The ghost of Judy Garland
Is visible at night:
Amphetamine-white phantom
Floats through the moon-mist light.

The Emerald City’s toppled,
The yellow bricks are dust,
And Dorothy’s dead in Kansas;
Tin Woodman s gone to rust.

The ghost of Judy Garland is audible as well
New York, New York’s her kind of town
Manhattan-angel’s hell.
10-92

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