Explore "Railroad Adventure" by Langston Hughes on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Dusk dark / On Railroad Avenue.
Lights in the fish joints, / Lights in the pool rooms.
A box-car some train / Has forgotten / In the middle of the / Block.
A player piano, / A victrola.
942
Was the number.
A boy / Lounging on a corner.
A passing girl / With purple powdered skin.
Laughter / Suddenly / Like a taut drum.
Laughter / Suddenly / Neither truth nor lie.
Laughter / Hardening the dusk dark evening.
Laughter / Shaking the lights in the fish joints, / Rolling white balls in the pool rooms, / And leaving untouched the box-car / Some train has forgotten.