I'm going to talk about 3 underlying themes I saw in these first poems (I did some math and Page 73 is pretty much the middle page).
    The first underlying theme is not hard to see, probably because I have been raised to be sensitive to such references, it is racism. At fist he's very subtle about his reference to it only mentioning color, which makes one think about it with out actually coming out and saying anything racist. Towards the end of the second section of the book "Beauty's Standing" he comes right out and says Nigger which kind of erases any hopeful doubts that he might not choose to talk about racism. Even later he mentions "the tv's black and white" and then "our lynched . . ." lynching being something that was horribly common placed torture and murder of blacks in the south before... well I'm not sure if it has been completely eradicated, but it is certainly not as common placed now as it was before The Civil Rights Movement.
    The second underlying theme I noticed is he talks a lot about bad economy, like in (the collection) when he talks about trash picking, and not having money and not being able to get jobs. On page 64 he mentions "vagrant progress" a vagrant being someone with no legal income and no home (I found the dictionary very helpful in understanding the reading). The author also mentions, multiple times, 'the city' being in various states of complete ruin. On page 54 it talks about being emptied out into the city dump, and making up losses for the union boss. The most obvious hint however is on page 57 where it says "we couldn't even get the job
of hauling

away
 our dead" morbid but clear.

   The last underlying theme was about Gods, I'm just not sure what about them.he mentions God two or three times by title, twice by related reference and two Gods from ancient societies (and also a phoenix which is odd but besides the point). The two ancient Gods that he mentions are Ra on page 24 when he is talking about celestial bodies and their orbits, which is fitting since Ra is the Egyptian sun God; And Athena on page 47 in saying that she no longer means anything to the people and is not taken seriously, but he also cites her as one of their gods, ironically on the page before that he mentions the Olympiad (the 4 year segment between the Olympics), this being ironic because Athena is of course the Greek Goddess of war, wisdom and justice. The two times he is mentioned by related reference are first on page 48 where he mentions Christians, and page 69 on which first he mentions God by name then he refers to the tornado as a "black pillar of light" which could be referring to the tornado's color or those who are following it, the pillar of light referring to the pillar that lead the Children of Israel by night on their 40 year journey through the wideness.