| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| IV. Playthings of the Wind |
| 20. Three Ghosts |
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| THREE tailors of Tooley Street wrote: We, the People. | |
| The names are forgotten. It is a joke in ghosts. | |
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| Cutters or bushelmen or armhole basters, they sat | |
| cross-legged stitching, snatched at scissors, stole each | |
| other thimbles. | 5 |
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| Cross-legged, working for wages, joking each other | |
| as misfits cut from the cloth of a Master Tailor, | |
| they sat and spoke their thoughts of the glory of | |
| The People, they met after work and drank beer to | |
| The People. | 10 |
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| Faded off into the twilights the names are forgotten. | |
| It is a joke in ghosts. Let it ride. They wrote: We, | |
| The People. | |
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