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December 1967 Issue
December 1967 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Promise of Thera
    Emily Vermeule
  • Report on Indonesia
    John Hughes
  • The Arabs, 1967
    John S. Badeau
  • Distance
    Grace Paley
  • Early December in Croton-on-Hudson: (For Charles Hertz)
    Louise Glück
  • The Birthday Way Out of Vietnam
    Herbert Mitgang
Poem

Sidewalk Orgy

By Richard O’Connell
December 1967 Issue
Saved Stories
When I see her walk before me
i am seized
By a desire 10 assault her all
At once as Zeus zoomed down on naked Leda.
Unfortunately I am not a swan
Nor would she understand my reference.