Choices
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
They offer you many things,
I a few
Moonlight on the play of fountains at night
With water sparkling a drowsy monotone.
Bare-shouldered, smiling women and talk
And a cross-play of loves and adulteries
And a fear of death
and a remembering of regrets
All this they offer you
I come with
salt and bread
a terrible job of work
and tireless war,
Come and have now
hunger
danger
and hate
Carl Sandburg's Choices
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