A power-house
in the shape of
a red brick chair
90 feet high
on the seat of which
sit the figures
of two metal
stacks--aluminum--
commanding an area
of squalid shacks
side by side--
from one of which
buff smoke
streams while under
a grey sky
the other remains
passive today--
Classic Scene
William Carlos Williams
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Poem topics: house, power, red, sky, today, shape, high, chair, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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