12,021. EARLY THIS DAY

EARLY THIS DAY

I arrived to Princeton on the 5:11.

Man was I early, but I knew a lot

of things that were good for the

dawn. This old field here, was once

a battlefield, and over there, that's

where they had a quarry. See it

in the daylight  -  all these buildings,

that's where they got the stone from,

where the library is now. Forrestal.

Witherspoon. All those crazy gents.

Aaron Burr grew up here, died,and

was buried here too, later. The houses

they claim for early days, they weren't

really here, or not in the places they 

are now. It's all become now part 

of the lore and the mythology they

built. Things got moved around  -  

like that yellow house there. If

you can make things fit, the story's

all yours for the making. No one 

knows a difference, and so what

if they did.