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Carl Sandburg - MamieCarl Sandburg - Mamie
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Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana     town and dreamed of romance and big things off     somewhere the way the railroad trains all ran. She could see the smoke of the engines get lost down     where the streaks of steel flashed in the sun and     when the newspapers came in on the morning mail     she knew there was a big Chicago far off, where all     the trains ran. She got tired of the barber shop boys and the post office     chatter and the church gossip and the old pieces the     band played on the Fourth of July and Decoration Day And sobbed at her fate and beat her head against the     bars and was going to kill herself When the thought came to her that if she was going to     die she might as well die struggling for a clutch of     romance among the streets of Chicago. She has a job now at six dollars a week in the basement     of the Boston Store And even now she beats her head against the bars in the     same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place     the railroads run to `n from Chicago where maybe     there is               romance               and big things               and real dreams               that never go smash.
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