Bowery Afternoon

________________________________________________
Title:     Bowery Afternoon
Author: Lola Ridge [More Titles by Ridge]

Drab discoloration
Of faces, facades, pawn-shops,
Second-hand clothing,
Smoky and fly-blown glass of lunch-rooms,
Odors of rancid life...

Deadly uniformity
Of eyes and windows
Alike devoid of light...
Holes wherein life scratches--
Mangy life
Nosing to the gutter's end...

Show-rooms and mimic pillars
Flaunting out of their gaudy vestibules
Bosoms and posturing thighs...

Over all the Elevated
Droning like a bloated fly.

[The end]
Lola Ridge's poem: Bowery Afternoon

________________________________________________



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN