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Carl Sandburg - Ready to Kill
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TEN minutes now I have been looking at this.
   I have gone by here before and wondered about it.
   This is the bronze memorial of a famous general
   Riding horseback with a flag and a sword and a revolver
     on him.
   I want to smash the whole thing into a pile of junk to be
     hauled away to the scrap yard.
   I put it straight to you,
   After the farmer, the miner, the shop man, the factory
     hand, the fireman and the teamster,
   Have all been remembered with bronze memorials,
   Shaping them on the job and getting all of us
  Something to eat and something to wear,
  When they stack a few silhouettes
      Against the sky
      Here in the park,
  And show the real huskies that are doing the work of
     the world, and feeding people instead of butchering
     them,
  Then maybe I will stand here
  And look easy at this general of the army holding a flag
     in the air,
  And riding like hell on horseback
  Ready to kill anybody that gets in his way,
  Ready to run the red blood and slush the bowels of men
     all over the sweet new grass of the prairie.
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