I leave the theatre,
keeping step, keeping step to the music.
It sticks to my feet,
stepped into dung.

Night falls
in still flakes.

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Material from
POEMS 1918-1975: THE COMPLETE POEMS OF CHARLES REZNIKOFF Copyright © 1977
by Marie Syrkin Reznikoff and reprinted with the permission of Black Sparrow Press.