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[zana16]

Today (or maybe yesterday) is Carl Sandburg's birthday. I don't like much poetry, but I like his. Here's my favorite:

Limited

I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the
nation.
Hurtling across the prairie into blue haze and dark air go fifteen
all-steel coaches holding a thousand people.
(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and
women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to
ashes.)
I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers:
"Omaha."

-CARL SANDBURG FROM CHICAGO POEMS

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[sylvanstargazer.livejournal.com]

the rootabega stories are my favorite!! I wish you were here, we could have story time. "The Wedding Procession of the Ragdoll and the Broomhandle and Who Was In It" is one of my favoritest things to read aloud.

in literary solidarity ^.^

[zana16.livejournal.com]

I've never read the rootabega stories. You should read them out loud to me and I'll read them out loud to you and we may be miles apart but we'll still have storytime!