The New Criticism
The Image
Of a city which is dying:
The skyscrapers all have scoliosis. They do not touch the sky.
They hunch over the street, threatening to fall.
Windows look like leprosy on the walls.
The streets, with their mottled pavement, are clotted arteries.
Women and men lie bleeding in alleys and side streets,
Like sores festering on the private places of a …
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