‘In a car like the Roxy I’d roll to the track, A steel-guitar trio, a bar in the back, And the wheels made no noise, they turned over so fast, Still it took you ten minutes to see me go past.
ATTRIBUTION:
X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929), U.S. poet. In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day (l. 21–24). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.
