54th Chorus

One night in 1941 I was a kid
And ran away from college
And took a bus to the South
Where bedbugs got in my hair
In the Heatwave Night
And all I saw on the long
Avenue were Negroes

Once I went to a movie
At midnight, 1940, Mice
And Men, the name of it,
The Red Block Boxcars
Rolling by (on the Screen)
  Yessir
        life
            finally
                gets
                tired
                of
                living –

On both occasions I had wild
Face looking into lights
Of Streets where phantoms
Hastened out of sight
Into Memorial Cello Time


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