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me she had heard of a student getting a set of false teeth for graduation — that the poor teeth of many young people symbolize the junk food they have grown up eating.

Of especial irony for O’Neill is the idea that

“Everyone wants to be Galloway,

to speak the language of gesture ,

to be the image itself without words” because for the poet, the image is composed of words, while for today’s youth, besides the dare-devil driver, the image is probably something on a TV screen.

And teacher Brian O’Neill, no matter what he tries, can’t interest the students. How is a fellow to justify his function when he has to compete with speeding and necking?

Instead of lamenting the vagaries of death, poet O’Neill regrets the acid rain in the auto-polluted air, eating up the tomb stones and damaging the trees. As we know from news accounts, acid rain is eating up all human monuments from all time, the Pyramids, the Parthenon, Can

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