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Glimmer

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

Let down your braids of hair, lady.
 Cross your legs and sit before the looking-glass
 And gaze long on lines under your eyes.
 Life writes; men dance.
   And you know how men pay women.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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