Kirksville High School - Regit Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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QM? r g-gg J 3 Zn- Housetops Houses . . tops . . . tops of houses. . Housetops! Down, down, down, to a kind old brown Housetop. Like a mushroom lulling baby dormice Is this one. Right near, close, close, close- Rides the miserly pitch of three pinched gables. Between . . . there's a black tar biscuit . . This one peaks up to a new blue roof-- The grey slates slip down Gothic grooves Away to the ground which has a still kept town Around it-with green and white housetops- Growing . . . Garven . . . And from that one, an opulent Colored tile basks flat from a hundred Angles. There with all its youth it clings To its earthy, black insides, and Rambles on . . . on. On, yes- But never up. Here is a puffed Dutch egotist Blind with itself. Great former eyes staring, conceitedly Unaware that inside there is nothing, and without Only housetop. There is a bashful English charmer. Not fair to its own. Little lead casement eyes glowing . . . Twinkling hints that it isn't all housetop. Bold housetops . . . timid housetops . Housetops poured in moulds . . . And striking individuals. A little more apprenticeship- And we're to build housetops. Tops are as you house them, Houses-as you tops them. Simple, though, isn't it? And all there is to choose from-- Happy tops f sad tops f lazy tops f dizzy tops f square tops Round tops f gay tops f grey tops f brown tops f dingy tops New tops f colored tops f little tops f big tops f rich tops Poor tops f bad tops f good tops . . . And all of them are . . . Housetops!-Kenneth Hopewell. . ll29ll f f