Carl Sandburg
1878-1967 / Male / American
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Who Am I?
My head knocks against the stars. / My feet are on the hilltops. / My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
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Offering and Rebuff
I could love you / as dry roots love rain. / I could hold you
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******
I am the ****** / Singer of songs, / Dancer...
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Elephants Are Different to Different People
Wilson and Pilcer and Snack stood before the zoo elephant. / Wilson said, "What is its name? Is it from Asia or Africa? Who feeds / it? Is it a he or a she? How old is it? Do they have twins? How much does
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The Sins of Kalamazoo
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. / And the people who sin the sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson.
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Personality
Musings of a Police Reporter in the Identification Bureau / You have loved forty women, but you have only one thumb. / You have led a hundred secret lives, but you mark only
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Weeds
FROM the time of the early radishes / To the time of the standing corn / Sleepy Henry Hackerman hoes.
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Singing ******
YOUR bony head, Jazbo, O dock walloper, / Those grappling hooks, those wheelbarrow handlers, / The dome and the wings of you, ******
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Moonset
LEAVES of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west. / Moon sand on the canal doubles the changing pictures. / The moon's good-by ends pictures.
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The Liars
(March, 1919)A LIAR goes in fine clothes. / A liar goes in rags. / A liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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