Monday, January 13, 2003

Bricklayer Love Comments

Rating: 3.3

I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer
and you a woman who loves the man who runs a drug store.

I don't care like I used to; I lay bricks straighter than I
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Carl Sandburg
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Edward Hester 29 June 2006

I'm seeing Sandburg in a new light. Its clear that he saw society as insane. It wears on a person, til the light of life drains out of them and they lose the will to live. He must have been a very lonely man.

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