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Mehr Licht

Mehr Licht

By Tim Dlugos 1950–1990 Tim Dlugos

were the last words

of Goethe on his

deathbed as the darkness

closed around him.

But Mayor Licht

was also the chief

executive of Providence,

Rhode Island in the early

Eighties. I’m dreaming

of the best political

commercial of all time—

Weimar in the 1830s,

Goethe gasping “Mehr licht,

mehr licht”—and suddenly

Mayor Harry Licht of Providence

appears to pump the paw

of the poet, and save the day.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2009).

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Poet Tim Dlugos 1950–1990

POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic

Subjects Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire, Social Commentaries, History & Politics

Poetic Terms Free Verse