Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHANCES R, by ALLEN GINSBERG


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First Line: Red glow on the tables
Last Line: "wichita traversed with streetlight
Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


Red glow on the tables,
spider chandeliers,
Nymph and shepherd raising electric tridents
against the plaster wall
(guardian spirits of antique meadow
and warrior town)
The jukebox beating out the magic syllables
A line of painted boys snapping fingers
& shaking thin Italian legs,
or rough dungarees on big asses
bumping and dipping
ritually, with no religion but the
old one of cocksuckers,
naturally, in Kansas center of America
the farmboys in Diabolic bar light
alone and stiff necked or lined up dancing
row on row like Afric husbands
& the music's sad here, where at the Sunset
Trip or Jukebox Corner it's ecstatic pinball
machines--Religiously, with concentration &
free prayer; fairy boys of
the plains
and their gay sisters of the city
step backward toward the bottled tables,
forward to the center of the concrete floor,
illumined by machine eyes, screaming drumbeats,
passionate voices of Oklahoma City
chanting No Satisfaction
Suspended from Heaven, the Chances
R Club floats in solid space
rayed with stars on an avenue in
Wichita traversed with streetlight





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