Advice: A Book of Poems

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">BROADWAY</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">With sardonic futility</div> <div class="verse">The multi-coloured crowd,</div> <div class="verse">Hurried by fervent sensuality,</div> <div class="verse">Flees from something carried on its back.</div> <div class="verse">Endlessly subdued, a sound</div> <div class="verse">Pours up from the crowd,</div> <div class="verse">Like some one ever gasping for breath</div> <div class="verse">To utter releasing words.</div> <div class="verse">Through the artificial valley</div> <div class="verse">Made by gaudy evasions,</div> <div class="verse">The stifled crowd files up and down,</div> <div class="verse">Stabbing thought with rapid noises.</div> <div class="verse">Women strutting dulcetly,</div> <div class="verse">Embroider their unappeased hungers,</div> <div class="verse">And men stumble toward a flitting opiate.</div> <div class="verse">Sometimes a moment breaks apart</div> <div class="verse">And one can hear the knuckles</div> <div class="verse">Of children rapping on towering doors:</div> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</SPAN></span> <div class="verse">Rapping on the highway</div> <div class="verse">Where civilization parades</div> <div class="verse">Its frozen amiabilities!</div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />