Iron and Dust
Rose fell from Vaudeville fame
And now dances on top of her old man's Steam shovel
And to think that in 1918
Her friends
Were buried in plague pits
Carved out of the earth
By the same machine
The poem tells a small, strange story about a woman named Rose who once had fame on the vaudeville stage and now dances on top of her father's steam shovel. The fall is quick and a little comic: from theatre to construction equipment. But the poem doesn't stay there.
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