This page has been validated.
CUMULATIVES
Storms have beaten on this point of land
And ships gone to wreck here
- and the passers-by remember it
- with talk on the deck at night
- as they near it.
- and the passers-by remember it
Fists have beaten on the face of this old prize-fighter
And his battles have held the sporting pages
and on the street they indicate him with their right fore-finger as one who once wore a championship belt.
A hundred stories have been published and a thousand rumored
About why this tall dark man has divorced two beautiful young women
And married a third who resembles the first two
- and they shake their heads and say, "There he goes,"
- when he passes by in sunny weather or in rain along the city streets.
37
