{"id":2520,"date":"2007-10-09T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/10\/stand-to-the-right-as-poetry.html"},"modified":"2007-10-09T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T10:12:00","slug":"stand-to-the-right-as-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/10\/stand-to-the-right-as-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Stand to the right&quot; as poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Garrison Keillor<\/span> read a poem called &#8220;To the Man in a Loden Coat&#8221; by <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Deborah Garrison<\/span> on <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The Writer&#8217;s Almanac<\/span><\/a>. I highly recommend that Metro riders <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/programs\/2007\/09\/24\/#wednesday\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">read this verse about escalator etiquette<\/span><\/a>. You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicradio.org\/tools\/media\/player\/almanac\/2007\/09\/26_wa\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">listen to Keillor read it<\/span><\/a> (after he goes over some birthdays).<\/p>\n<p>Is this the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">greatest<\/span> urban poem ever? Well that is hard to say, but I think Deborah Garrison ought to be named the poet laureate of Metro.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2007\/10\/04\/DI2007100401015.html\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Roads &#038; Rails chat, washingtonpost.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. 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