705B McNamara Hall

Now they’re shouting out there in the night

gone spiking their volleys in the lights off
McNamara Hall where they all seem so near
even seven stories down on the ground
when their noise is in the atmosphere.

Now a music mish-mash booms in the air
outside this single lit dorm of mine where
the critters hang stuck on the shut screen
and buzzers leapfrog and fight bare handed
for the fabled glory of my florescent scene.

Here some guys are disposed to yell in the hall
to torture us guys who have to suffer all
night in our bunks until the shade cuts in
and finishes off their drunken staggers blinded
by a limelight hole to throw their guts in.

But even when our suite is trashed like that,
I still say it’s “dorm sweet dorm”—
and a pretty sweet place to crash.

--Farewell Frat Row

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