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A TouchAuthor(s): Larry GraySource: Notre Dame English Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter, 1969/1970), p. 53Published by: The University of Notre DameStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40066362 .

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A TOUCH

SEVEN POEMS 53

On a dark way home down a Chicago street an unravelling derelict shone in the light to meet me. He asked if I was one with him and why; and for twenty-five cents I was able to tell him on avenues all men are the same and that differences of revenues are nothing but grand impostures or evil intents.

And that the lights on the corners are brothermarkers, I told him, signs for night lost men to lean upon in darker nights, the lamps for the dimmed to walk by. But a ginned hum spun him back to shadows. Away he weaves, humming of wine with a sway. I walked away poorer something more than a quarter.

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