Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

II. People Who Must

23. Neighbors

ON Forty First Street

near Eighth Avenue

a frame house wobbles.

If houses went on crutches

this house would be

one of the cripples.

A sign on the house:

Church of the Living God

And Rescue Home for Orphan Children.

From a Greek coffee house

Across the street

A cabalistic jargon

Jabbers back.

And men at tables

Spill Peloponnesian syllables

And speak of shovels for street work.

And the new embankments of the Erie Railroad

At Painted Post, Horse’s Head, Salamanca.