Stripes by Carl Sandburg
POLICEMAN in front of a bank 3 A.M. … lonely. Policeman State and Madison … high noon … mobs … cars … parcels … lonely. Woman in suburbs … keeping night watch on a sleeping typhoid patient … only a clock to talk to … lonesome. Woman selling gloves … bargain day department store … furious crazy-work of many hands slipping in and out of gloves … lonesome.
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