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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE THEATER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night in the theater
Last Line: Sex: the dancers: the light-footed trippers on the earth.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters
First Line: Last night in the theater
Last Line: Sex: the dancers: the light-footed trippers on the earth.
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters
LAST NIGHT in the theater
The fleet-footed dancers bowed in the spotlight:
Then they clasped, and invisible hands shaped them like waters that never spilled:
And at once through me rose the mists of creation:
And I saw that chaos, the illimitable nebula of the universe
Had jetted forth this pair: the eternal pair:
Sex: the dancers: the light-footed trippers on the Earth.
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