| Carl Sandburg (18781967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| II. People Who Must |
| 5. Hats |
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| HATS, where do you belong? | |
| what is under you? | |
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| On the rim of a skyscrapers forehead | |
| I looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats: | |
| Swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle and waterfalls, | 5 |
| Stopping with a silence of sea grass, a silence of prairie corn. | |
| Hats: tell me your high hopes. | |
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