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Stripes

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

Policeman in front of a bank 3 A.M.... lonely.
 Policeman State and Madison... high noon... mobs... cars... parcels... lonely.

 Woman in suburbs... keeping night watch on a sleeping typhoid patient... only a clock to talk to... lonesome.
 Woman selling gloves... bargain day department store... furious crazy-work of many hands slipping in and out of gloves... lonesome.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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