Where have they gone- / The yellow-billed duck on the edge of the tub, / The Santa Claus soap, the atomic sub, / The tattered tiger with one blue eye / As bright as the fiercest African sky? / Though I look and I search as hard as I can, / All I see now is a tall young man… / Where are they now… / The battered remains of a merry-go-round / That once emitted a rollicking sound- / (A carousel can be hammered apart, / But you can’t break the tune in a blue horse’s heart) / The age-stooped giraffe, the sea-going pail, / The boat with the impossibly purple sail- / The rabbit-eared night-light that flickered till dawn – / Where, oh where, oh where have they gone? /
I go down through the years, through laughter and tears / Down corridors haunted by old hopes and fears- / Though I measure and probe and remember and scan, / All I see now is a tall young man.
cr Maria Caporale Shecktor c:1970
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:: Posted by Andrew on 03-24-2010Please post any comments or questions or anything else that may be of interest. We are particularly interested in others of the same name and spelling. It is also interesting to note, that in addition to the few having the last name “Shecktor” with that spelling, there is also a Marvel comic character of the same name (Thor, Journey Into Mystery).