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Two Strangers Breakfast

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

The law says you and I belong to each other, George.
 The law says you are mine and I am yours, George.
 And there are a million miles of white snowstorms, a million furnaces of hell,
 Between the chair where you sit and the chair where I sit.
 The law says two strangers shall eat breakfast together after nights on the horn of an Arctic moon.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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