Omaha by Carl Sandburg
RED barns and red heifers spot the green grass circles around Omaha—the farmers haul tanks of cream and wagon loads of cheese. Shale hogbacks across the river at Council Bluffs—and shanties hang by an eyelash to the hill slants back around Omaha. A span of steel ties up the kin of Iowa and Nebraska across the yellow, big-hoofed Missouri River. Omaha, the roughneck, feeds armies, Eats and swears from a dirty face. Omaha works to get the world a breakfast.
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