Lola Ridge

Here you will find the Poem Bowery Afternoon of poet Lola Ridge

Bowery Afternoon

Drab discoloration
Of faces, façades, pawn-shops,
Second-hand clothing,
Smoky and fly-blown glass of lunch-rooms,
Odors of rancid life?

Deadly uniformity
Of eyes and windows
Alike devoid of light?
Holes wherein life scratches - 
Mangy life
Nosing to the gutter's end?

Show-rooms and mimic pillars
Flaunting out of their gaudy vestibules
Bosoms and posturing thighs?

Over all the Elevated
Droning like a bloated fly.