<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410436" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Found Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">after information received in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 v 86</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The population center of the USA<br>Has shifted to Potosi, in Missouri.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The calculation employed by authorities<br>In arriving at this dislocation assumes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That the country is a geometric plane,<br>Perfectly flat, and that every citizen,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Including those in Alaska and Hawaii<br>And the District of Columbia, weighs the same;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So that, given these simple presuppositions,<br>The entire bulk and spread of all the people</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should theoretically balance on the point<br>Of a needle under Potosi in Missouri</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where no one is residing nowadays<br>But the watchman over an abandoned mine</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whence the company got the lead out and left.<br>'It gets pretty lonely here,' he says, 'at night.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410436" data-title="Found Poem de Howard Nemerov" data-description="after information received in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 v 86 The population center of the USA Has shifted to Potosi, in Missouri. The calculation employed by authorities In arriving at this dislocation assumes That the country is a geometr..."></div> </div> </div>

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