Chicago: City of Big Shoulders

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“Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler; stormy, husky, brawling, city of big shoulders.” – Carl Sandburg

Chicago: City of the Big Shoulders

©2014 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved.

Chicago
by Carl Sandburg

"Hog Butcher for the World,
   Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
   Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
   Stormy, husky, brawling,
   City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas  lamps luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I ..."

Read the entire poem:  Chicago by Carl Sandburg:  Poetry Magazine

City of Big Shoulders: Chicago

Photo credit: Laurel Delaney, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Oak Street and Michigan Avenue, John Hancock Building

"Hog butcher for the world,
Tool maker, stacker of wheat,
Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of big shoulders."

~ Carl Sandburg, 'Chicago,' 1916

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