Saturday night at the islands.
Twenty thousand revelers seemed plenty.
I read that during the war of 1812
The canons at Put-in Bay could be heard in Huron.
Not especially a long distance
For booms and flashing
across a quiet flat lake during a still evening.
Oliver Hazard Perry lives in his proclamation:
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
I heard of this battle when I was in grade school.
Now two hundred years have passed.
The echoes of that war have reverberated.
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