Carl Sandburg

[Ya Sam]

Correction


>From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Carl Sanbburg
>Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:47:27 +0200
>
>His poem 'Chicago' is also relevant to ATD:
>
>"CHICAGO"
>
>HOG Butcher for the World,
>Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
>Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
>Stormy, husky, brawling,
>City of the Big Shoulders: 5
>
>They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your 
>painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
>And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen 
>the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
>And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and 
>children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
>And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, 
>and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
>Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive 
>and coarse and strong and cunning. 10
>Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall 
>bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
>Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted 
>against the wilderness,
>Bareheaded,
>Shoveling,
>Wrecking, 15
>Planning,
>Building, breaking, rebuilding,
>Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,
>Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,
>Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, 20
>Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs 
>the heart of the people,
>Laughing!
>Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, 
>sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player 
>with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
>
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