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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Chicago Poems. 1916.

37. In a Back Alley

REMEMBRANCE for a great man is this.

The newsies are pitching pennies.

And on the copper disk is the man’s face.

Dead lover of boys, what do you ask for now?