Explore "City Streets" by Maxwell Bodenheim on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
/ This pavement and the sordid boast of stone / And brick that wins the pity of a sky / Are only martyred symbols made to buy / A dream of permanence for flesh and bone. / The jumbled, furtive anecdotes of lips / And limbs that bring their fever to this street, / They will subside to fragments of defeat / Within the cool republic where death trips.
/ This is an age where flesh desires to shape / Intense hyperboles in prose and verse, / Transforming city streets and country lanes / To backgrounds aiding physical escape. / But city streets are waiting to disperse / With ruins the fight and plight of earthly pains.