Friday, January 3, 2003

Dynamiter Comments

Rating: 2.5

I sat with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions.
And he laughed and told stories of his wife and children and the cause of labor and the working class.
It was laughter of an unshakable man knowing life to be a rich and red-blooded thing.
Yes, his laugh rang like the call of gray birds filled with a glory of joy ramming their winged flight through a rain storm.
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Carl Sandburg
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Michael Walker 06 November 2019

A strange story of a dynamiter, who loves life, and is famous or notorious. 'Red blood' could be taken either way-courageous and manly, or bleeding from dynamite.

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