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What would John Denver write now ?

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I noticed this using Google Street View "driving" around the old Fox Point neighborhood: I-43 is in back of the concrete wall And I thought about this John Denver song: The truck would be on the four lane but his wheels would be whispering not whining with these walls in place ? And remember this poem: Mending Wall By Robert Frost Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulder...