And mumbles to herself.

The trampled blasphemy upon her face

Holds up, in death, its watery, barren eyes.

Indifferently, she brushes past the vagrant:

Life has peeled away her sense of touch.

III

With groping majesty, the endless crowd

Pounds its searching chant of feet

Down this tawdrily resplendent street.

People stray into a burlesque theatre