Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

VIII. Circles of Doors

3. Two Strangers Breakfast

THE LAW says you and I belong to each other, George.

The law says you are mine and I am yours, George.

And there are a million miles of white snowstorms, a million furnaces of hell,

Between the chair where you sit and the chair where I sit.

The law says two strangers shall eat breakfast together after nights on the horn of an Arctic moon.