Secrets of the City » minnesotans http://www.secretsofthecity.com A Daily Digest of Twin Cities News, Arts and Culture Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:55:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Poems About Notable Minnesotans http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/poems-about-notable-minnesotans http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/poems-about-notable-minnesotans#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:52:56 +0000 Max Sparber Muble Herder stumbles across a Swedish dialect poem about railroad magnate James J. Hill: got little faller har / Name ban Yem / Das whole railroad over dar / Blong to him.

Maybe it’s time to use this inspiration to write a few poems to more recent notable Minnesotans. I’ll start: Nobody walks / said Denny Hecker / maybe he shoulda waited / until the checks cleared.

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