ATLANTIC CITY
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Vulgar houses And large grotesque hotels, Thousands of swarming people, Overfed, disgusting, and fat, Or pale and sickly; Creeping along the boardwalk Or being pushed by sweating niggers In pigmy houses built on wheels. Shops filled with gaudy finery— Cheap laces, false jewelry, and pink and blue sea salt candy.... And then more shops, And million dollar piers Stretching their sordid hands out toward the horizon, And reaching down into the depths and sacred blueness of the ocean, Which, in the face of all such man-built hideousness, Remains forever, mysterious, Sublime and beautiful!