[syndicate] The Roller Coasters of Phillis Wheatley

[jeff harrison]

ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA 

The Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure (Jackson, 
New Jersey) is 464 feet & 3118 feet long, with a drop 
of 428 feet. a top speed of 128 miles per hour, Kingda 
Ka's passengers, handfast meadowlarks born for the sake 
of falling between fingers, are not black-thorn, nor oh 
awake they are from some indomitable hue 

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GOLIATH OF GATH 

The Top Thrill Dragster goes from zero to 
120 mph in 4 seconds. at zero mph it's a hand 
inactive and unwary next to a threat'ning maw - 

a wounded, sick, or aging brown bat inches away 
from an attentive grey-striped cat 

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TO S.M. A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING 
HIS WORKS FOR THE FIRST TIME 

Thunder Dolphin passes thru the middle 
of a ferris wheel, and, like a poem, is 
within the horizon of universal apology with 

pagoda abruptness; her (T.D.) money all workable, 
a second-best peep otherwise or, even, mosque 

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A HYMN TO THE MORNING 

Steel Dragon 2000 is the tallest 
coaster to use a traditional chain 
lift (due to the lift hill's length 
2 chains are used) & cost 
$50 million, more than a Goya 

do you know how Goya died? 
mad in a dark wet house 
he drew on the walls 
every monkey on a tree 
was his story 

he began losing the brain 
misantropo suddenly 
he refugee in his house 

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TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON 

Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway, built by 
LaMarcus Adna Thompson, was the first roller 
coaster in the United States (roller coasters 
originated in Russia, then made their way to 
France, stealing away under cover of darkness) 

5 cents a ride 

a nickel 
could ne'er help unknot any loftier prize 

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ON IMAGINATION 

The Russian Mountains opened in 1804. 

The Russian Mountains was 
the first roller coaster in Paris. 

The Russian Mountains would 
dump most its carriages as it 
carried them to the bottom. 

The Russian Mountains slew 
many lovely courtesans. 

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NIOBE IN DISTRESS FOR HER CHILDREN 
SLAIN BY APOLLO, FROM OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS, 
BOOK VI. AND FROM A VIEW OF THE PAINTING 
OF MRS. RICHARD WILSON 

Millennium Force was the first roller coaster 
to utilize a magnetic braking system. like 

most roller coasters, it is taller than the statue 
of liberty. golden the pace of Millennium Force -- 

golden the pace of all roller coasters, 
silver speaks the water to their eyes 

they move as a glass stream - the grass 
has burned down & the water gets dry 

in love they are with this short planet 

sunwards you streams to what sunshine? I'm 
fearful that my pace could be thus golden 

 		
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