Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.
II. People Who Must23. Neighbors
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near Eighth Avenue
a frame house wobbles.
this house would be
one of the cripples.
Church of the Living God
And Rescue Home for Orphan Children.
Across the street
A cabalistic jargon
Jabbers back.
And men at tables
Spill Peloponnesian syllables
And speak of shovels for street work.
And the new embankments of the Erie Railroad
At Painted Post, Horse’s Head, Salamanca.