Paul Bunyan’s in the market for an ox that’s new;
Ol’ Babe the Blue is done & through—
Killed over in Illinois just last June.
So Paul built a cross 200 feet tall
And dragged it from Springfield on an 88 mile haul.
And Pontius Pilate Pritzker gave him 40 licks
with the aid of the State House Majority Whip.
That’s the story of the big cross, they say,
That I’m glaring at now stuck on the interstate.
Not big enough for the Father up in Heaven;
Big enough for an ox at I-70 & 57.
And the construction that traps me is said to repair the ruts that Paul Bunyan carved in despair.
With construction set to be finished
just after the sun burns out.
Jace Slone ’27 studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at j.d.slone@wustl.edu.