Explore "Rain after a Vaudeville Show" by Stephen Vincent Benet on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white / Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light / Stabbing the eyes; and as I stumbled out / The curtain rose. A fat girl with a pout / And legs like hams, began to sing "His Mother".
Gusts of bad air rose in a choking smother; / Smoke, the wet steam of clothes, the stench of plush, / Powder, cheap perfume, mingled in a rush.