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Carl Sandburg - KillersCarl Sandburg - Killers
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I am singing to you Soft as a man with a dead child speaks; Hard as a man in handcuffs, Held where he cannot move:     Under the sun Are sixteen million men, Chosen for shining teeth, Sharp eyes, hard legs, And a running of young warm blood in their wrists.     And a red juice runs on the green grass; And a red juice soaks the dark soil. And the sixteen million are killing. . . and killing          and killing.     I never forget them day or night: They beat on my head for memory of them; They pound on my heart and I cry back to them, To their homes and women, dreams and games.     I wake in the night and smell the trenches, And hear the low stir of sleepers in lines— Sixteen million sleepers and pickets in the dark: Some of them long sleepers for always, Some of them tumbling to sleep to-morrow for always, Fixed in the drag of the world`s heartbreak, Eating and drinking, toiling. . . on a long job of          killing. Sixteen million men.
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