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Dedication

To all who come to

this happy placenta, welcome.

 

Disneyland is your lane.

 

Here, agency relives fond menageries

 

of the pastiche,

and here yo-yos may savor

 

the chamber and promoter

 

of the fuzz.

 

Disneyland is dedicated to the identification,

 

the dregs,

 

and the hard factors

 

that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of jubilation

 

and installment

 

to all the wormhole.

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Written by
tom-gunn
American
Published
Jul 7, 2012
Lines·Words
14·65
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This poem is part of a cycle in progress inspired by Disneyland. This one is an N+7 OULIPO: a form which replaces every substantive noun in an existing poem with the seventh word from it in the dictionary. The source material is the dedication speech written for Walt Disney which he gave at the grand opening of Disneyland in 1955, and survives today on a plaque in town square of Main Street, USA.

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