Halsted Street Car by Carl Sandburg
COME you, cartoonists, Hang on a strap with me here At seven o'clock in the morning On a Halsted street car.
Take your pencils And draw these faces.
Try with your pencils for these crooked faces, That pig-sticker in one corner--his mouth-- That overall factory girl--her loose cheeks.
Find for your pencils A way to mark your memory Of tired empty faces.
After their night's sleep, In the moist dawn And cool daybreak, Faces Tired of wishes, Empty of dreams.
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