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As suns, Sons gone tired in the heart and left the south. The North, years later she ’d wept for him drunk and a man finally they must have thought. In the dark, he was even darker. Wooden fingers running. Wind so sweet it drank him.  \nFaces broke. Charts of age. Worn thru, to see black years. Bones in iron faces. Steel bones. Cages of decay. Cobblestones are wet near the army stores. Beer smells, Saturday. To now, they have passed so few lovely things.  \nNewsreel chickens. Browned in the street. I was carrying groceries back across the manicured past. Back, in a coat. Sunk, screaming at my fingers. Faces broken, hair waved, simple false elegance. I must tell someone I love you. Them. In line near the fence. She sucked my tongue. Red, actual red, but colored hair. Soft thin voice, and red freckles. A servant.  \nYou should be ashamed. Your fingers are trembling. You lied in the garage. You lied yesterday. Get out of the dance, down the back stairs, the street, and across in the car. Run past it, around the high building. Court Street, past the Y, harder, buttoning a cardigan, to Morton Street. Duck down, behind the car. Let Apple pass; a few others. Now take off back down Court, the small guys couldn’t run. Cross High, near Graychun’s, the Alumni House, donald the fag’s, the jews, to Kinney. Up one block, crooked old jews die softly under the moon. Past them. Past them. Their tombs and bones. Wet dollars blown against the fence. Past them, mattie ’s Dr., waltine, turn at Quitman. You can slow some, but not too much. Through the Owl Club, Frankie, Dee ’s dumb brother, turn, wave at them. Down the back steps, to dirt, then stone. The poolroom, eddie smiles, points at his hat, pats his car keys, phone numbers. Somerset and the projects. To Montgomery and twist at Barclay. Light people stare. Parties, relationships forming to be explained later. Casual strangers ’ faces known better than any now. Wood jaws sit open, their halls reek, his fingers tug at yellow cotton pants and slip inside. One finger her eyes open and close—her mouth opens moaning deep agitated darkly.  \nIn the middle of the street, straight at the moon. Don’t get close to the buildings. Too many exits, doors, parks. Straight at the moon, up Barclay. Green tyrolean, gray bells, bucks. The smoking lights at Spruce. Hip charles curtis. But turn before Herman or Wattley. They pace in wool jails, wool chains, years below the earth. Dead cocks crawling, eyes turned up in space. Near diane ’s house and the trees cradling her hidden flesh. Her fingers, her mouth, her eyes were all I had. And she screamsnow through soft wrinkles for me to take her. ANun.  \nWheeling now, back on the sidewalk, Saturday drunks spinning by, fish stores yawned, sprawled niggers dying without matches. Friends, enemies, strangers, fags, screaming louder than all sound. Young boys in hallways touching. Bulldaggers hiding their pussies. Black dead faces slowly ground to dust.  \nHeadlight, Bubbles, Kennie, Rogie, Junie Boy, T. Bone, Rudy (All Hillside Place) or Sess, Ray, Lillian, Ungie, Ginger, Shirley, Cedie Abrams. Past them, displaced, blood seeps on the pavement under marquees. Lynn Hope marches on Belmont Ave. with us all. The Three Musketeers at the  \nNational. (Waverly Projects.) Past that. Their arms waving from the stands. Sun and gravel or the 3 hole opens and it’s more beautiful than Satie. A hip, change speeds, head fake, stop, cut back, a hip, head fake . . . then only one man comin","cbCaicGPI3jB6G9G","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicGPI3jB6G9G","pdf",4680395,"English","# A CHASE (ALIGHIERI’S DREAM)\n## The Alternative\n## Between Yes and No","[{\"question\":\"What is the central motif in this excerpt?\",\"answer\":\"The excerpt emphasizes “A CHASE (ALIGHIERI’S DREAM),” repeatedly framing the movement through streets as a driving motif.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text shift in tone and structure?\",\"answer\":\"It moves through fragmented scenes and direct address, then explicitly introduces “THE ALTERNATIVE,” changing the reflective focus while keeping the same intense poetic rhythm.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of settings appear in the passage?\",\"answer\":\"The passage repeatedly anchors itself in urban locations—street corners, buildings, clubs, and familiar neighborhood spaces—rendered as dreamlike sequences.\"}]","Tales - A CHASE - (ALIGHIERI’S DREAM) | PDF",1789988729,123]