Great Regulars: It's likely that if you found the original

handwritten manuscript of T.S. Eliot's groundbreaking poem, "The Waste Land," you wouldn't be able to trade it for a candy bar at the Quick Shop on your corner. Here's a poem by David Lee Garrison of Ohio about how unsuccessfully classical music fits into a subway.

Bach in the DC Subway

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 239

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