Monday, January 27, 2014

Five Towns On The B. & O. Comments

Rating: 3.0

BY day ... tireless smokestacks ... hungry smoky shanties hanging to the slopes ... crooning: We get by, that's all.
By night ... all lit up ... fire-gold bars, fire-gold flues ... and the shanties shaking in clumsy shadows ... almost the hills shaking ... all crooning: By God, we're going to find out or know why.
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Carl Sandburg
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Michael Walker 24 October 2019

The poem makes you wonder what the five towns are. Not bad.

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