His lines are lean and taut and flow with the dancing. velvety cadences of moonbeams on the Wabash. while his words glow like a sparkling lavaliere. Structured like a fugue. the recurrent theme of loneliness caresses each movement of the poem. The first movement deals with the loneliness of xenophobia. the fear of strange and exotic people or things. reflected in a local ordinance against peddlers. The second movement deals with the tawdry emptiness of the monochromatic way of life. relieved only by the variegated colors of cocktails. The third movement deals with a loneliness so empty that God Himself seems scarce there to bethe mortician who. for a fee. weeps and mourns in all faiths for the soul of the departed and for the solace of his survivors.
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