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The old black-man showed me / how he had been shocked / in his youth / by six women, dancing / a set-dance, stark naked below / the skirts raised round / their breasts: / bellies flung forward / knees flying!
-while / his gestures, against the / tiled wall of the dingy bath-room, / swished with ecstasy to / the familiar music of / his old emotion.