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Stuart Dybeck
Stuart Dybeck
Stuart Dybeck is a legendary short story teller. In his poems he references his native Chicago, for irony to show the street life and help you capture an image of what he is speaking.
Poem!
A man steps out of sunlight,
Sunlight that streams like grace,
Still gaping at the blue sky
stacked across the emptiness of space,
into a history where shadows
assume a hidden face.
A man slips into silence
that begins as a cry,
Still trailing music
although reduced to the sigh
of an accordion
as it fold into its case.
Theme Of The Poem
The poem talks about a street performer that is playing music and no one is listening. In the poem it says"A man slips into silence that begins as a cry" ,showing that the man who is playing is lonely and no one cares about what he is doing.
6-year-old dances to street performer in Chicago