Disillusionment at 10 o'clock

I read this poem prior to reading the short story Where have you been, where are you going?, so i did  not make the connection. Here are my notes on the poem directly after I read it : The poem I felt was told from the perspective of someone walking through a town, an outsider. The people in their homes wearing the same white ordinary, mundane nightgowns. No individual character to show, not even a wild dream in their heads. Their thoughts too cluttered with daily tasks and lifes happenings to allow for creative thoughts and expressions. In quite contrast a drunken sailor has plenty of time and no daily grind to allow for all sorts of fantasies to enter his dreams.The average person is so caught up in life even their dreams are cluttered with "normalsy". A drunk sailor over his prime maybe the best candidate to have enough empty thought to allow for fanciful dreams. After the class discussion, i still do not see the connection between the poem and short story.