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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STREET CORNER COLLEGE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next year the grave grass will cover us Last Line: Cold stars and the whores. Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes | |||
Next year the grave grass will cover us. We stand now, and laugh; Watching the girls go by; Betting on slow horses; drinking cheap gin. We have nothing to do; nowhere to go; nobody. Last year was a year ago; nothing more. We weren't younger then; nor older now. We manage to have the look the young men have; We feel nothing behind our faces, one way or other. We shall probably not be quite dead when we die. We were never anything all the way; not even soldiers. We are the insulted, brother, the desolate boys. Sleepwalkers in a dark and terrible land, Where solitude is a dirty knife at out throats. Cold stars watch us, chum Cold stars and the whores. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUMS, ON WAKING by JAMES DICKEY A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A VAGABOND SONG by BLISS CARMAN A LETTER ON THE USE OF MACHINE GUNS AT WEDDINGS by KENNETH PATCHEN |
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