Pan-american Highway/dari%C3%A9n Gap

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    The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    the gap of today filling itself
    as emptiness is distributed
    in the idea of what time it is
    when that time is already past
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)