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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Stupidity Street

By Ralph Hodgson

I SAW with open eyes

Singing birds sweet

Sold in the shops

For the people to eat,

Sold in the shops of

Stupidity Street.

I saw in vision

The worm in the wheat,

And in the shops nothing

For people to eat;

Nothing for sale in

Stupidity Street.