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Soup

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

I saw a famous man eating soup.
 I say he was lifting a fat broth
 Into his mouth with a spoon.
 His name was in the newspapers that day
 Spelled out in tall black headlines
 And thousands of people were talking about him.

   When I saw him,
 He sat bending his head over a plate
 Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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