Long Island
The people here are all pioneers who went east.
Weekdays the sons go west, returning each night
with unconvinced faces.
Some days they think this place is Eldorado.
A conventioneer from Peoria looking for Times Square
once went too far and ended up in Babylon.
"Not so bad as I thought," he allowed,
"--but where's the Empire State Building?"
So we showed him Montauk Point
our little lighthouse and all that serious
water.
What could he say?
It's hard not to admire a place
that would stick its neck out
into an ocean like that.
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