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Railroad Avenue
 
Dusk dark
On Railroad Avenue.
Lights in the fish joints,
Lights in  the pool rooms.
A box-car some train
Has forgotten
In the middle of the  
Block.
A player piano,
A  victrola,
942
Was the  number.
 
A boy
Lounging on the corner.
A passing girl
With purple powdered  skin.
Laughter 
Suddenly
Like  a taut  drum.
Laughter
Suddenly
    Neither truth nor  lie.
Laughter
Hardening the dusk dark  evening.
Laughter
Shaking the lights in the fish  joints,
Rolling white balls in the pool rooms,
And leaving untouched the  box-car
Some train has forgotten.
 

--Langston Hughes
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Vintage  Books, 1974



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