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IN THE THEATER by JAMES OPPENHEIM

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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