See the Nation's Capital

See the Nation's Capital, see
the 19th-century Roman temples
and the new J. Edgar Hoover Airport Inn;
see Ev Dirksen's gleaming marble office shrine,
and the bronze heroic statues of
Sam Rayburn and his forebears.

See the Nation's Capital, see
the heavy-legged girls
at rush hour, bolting
untold massive portals of
The Commerce
Department.

                                                            --Robert Winter
                                                                1974