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Rhyme Scheme: AB CBB DEFGHIJKLLMNI MMBOPQ ROISOB MOIMTMMOMOO| Fine living a la carte | A |
| Come to the Waldorf Astoria | B |
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| LISTEN HUNGRY ONES | C |
| Look See what Vanity Fair says about the | B |
| new Waldorf Astoria | B |
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| All the luxuries of private home | D |
| Now won't that be charming when the last flop house | E |
| has turned you down this winter | F |
| Furthermore | G |
| It is far beyond anything hitherto attempted in the hotel | H |
| world It cost twenty eight million dollars The fa | I |
| mous Oscar Tschirky is in charge of banqueting | J |
| Alexandre Gastaud is chef It will be a distinguished | K |
| background for society | L |
| So when you've no place else to go homeless and hungry | L |
| ones choose the Waldorf as a background for your rags | M |
| Or do you still consider the subway after midnight good | N |
| enough | I |
| - | |
| ROOMERS | M |
| Take a room at the new Waldorf you down and outers | M |
| sleepers in charity's flop houses where God pulls a | B |
| long face and you have to pray to get a bed | O |
| They serve swell board at the Waldorf Astoria Look at the menu will | P |
| you | Q |
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| GUMBO CREOLE | R |
| CRABMEAT IN CASSOLETTE | O |
| BOILED BRISKET OF BEEF | I |
| SMALL ONIONS IN CREAM | S |
| WATERCRESS SALAD | O |
| PEACH MELBA | B |
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| Have luncheon there this afternoon all you jobless | M |
| Why not | O |
| Dine with some of the men and women who got rich off of | I |
| your labor who clip coupons with clean white fingers | M |
| because your hands dug coal drilled stone sewed gar | T |
| ments poured steel to let other people draw dividends | M |
| and live easy | M |
| Or haven't you had enough yet of the soup lines and the bit | O |
| ter bread of charity | M |
| Walk through Peacock Alley tonight before dinner and get | O |
| warm anyway You've got nothing else to do | O |
Langston Hughes
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