Incident Along Fantasy Way Hospital Parking Only On a street near where I live was a parking lot. Then they fenced it off And dug a big hole Like they were going to build something. But the sign remained: "PARKING FOR HOSPITAL ONLY". A month went by and nothing else happened And I eventually stopped thinking about it. Then one day instead of the hole There was a magnificent building With all kinds of people And cars and delivery trucks And ambulances Coming and going And over the door a sign: "MERCY HOSPITAL". It stood there a week Then one day was gone Leaving only the hole And the parking sign. A month or two later came another -- Sirens all hours of the night And the sign said "CENTRAL EMERGENCY". It stayed about ten days. Then one evening as I strolled by I saw that where the hospitals had been Was now a bank, And taped to the front door was a slip of paper: A parking ticket. Thomas G. Digby written 0035 hr 10/20/74 entered 1635 hr 2/27/92