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| Carl Sandburg |
Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on January 6, 1878. His
parents, August and Clara Johnson, had emigrated to America from the north of
Sweden. After encountering several August Johnsons in...
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| Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio
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by Carl Sandburg |
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It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes.
The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts.
The banjo tickles and titters too awful.
The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers.
The cartoonists weep in their beer.
Ship riveters talk with their feet
To the feet of floozies under the tables.
A quartet of white hopes mourn with interspersed snickers:
"I got the blues.
I got the blues.
I got the blues."
And . . . as we said earlier:
The cartoonists weep in their beer.
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