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Article: Young man on Sixth Avenue. (poem)
- Article from:
- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
- Author:
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He was a young man in the big city. He was a young man in the biggest, the most overwhelming city--and he was not overwhelmed. For see, he strode across Fifth Avenue just before the light changed, and his head was up in the sharp New York wind and he was thriving upon the rock of Manhattan, in 1938. His legs were long and his legs were strong; there was no question about his legs; they were unmistakable in their length and strength; they were as bold and dependable as any American machine, moving him across Fifth just in time, his brown shoes attaining the sidewalk without any faltering, his gait unaware of the notion that legs might ever want to rest. Forty-ninth Street! He ...
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