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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Government by Carl Sandburg The Government--I heard about the Government and I went out to find it. I said I would look closely at it when I saw it. Then I saw a policeman dragging a drunken man to the callaboose. It was the Government in action. I saw a ward alderman slip into an office one morning and talk with a judge. Later in the day the judge dismissed a case against a pickpocket who was a live ward worker for the alderman. Again I saw this was the Government, doing things. I saw militiamen level their rifles at a crowd of workingmen who were trying to get other workingmen to stay away from a shop where there was a strike on. Government in action. Everywhere I saw that Government is a thing made of men, that Government has blood and bones, it is many mouths whispering into many ears, sending telegrams, aiming rifles, writing orders, saying "yes" and "no." Government dies as the men who form it die and are laid away in their graves and the new Government that comes after is human, made of heartbeats of blood, ambitions, lusts, and money running through it all, money paid and money taken, and money covered up and spoken of with hushed voices. A Government is just as secret and mysterious and sensitive as any human sinner carrying a load of germs, traditions and corpuscles handed down from fathers and mothers away back. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Carl Sandburg All Day Long Among The Red Guns And They Obey Anna Imroth At A Window Aztec Aztec Mask A Coin A Fence A Sphinx A Teamsters Farewell Back Yard Bath Between Two Hills Blacklisted Boes Bones Bricklayer Love Broadway Bronzes Buttons Chamfort Chicago Child Child Moon Child Of The Romans Choices Choose Clark Street Bridge Crimson Cripple Cumulatives Docks Dreams In The Dusk Dream Girl Dunes Dynamiter Fellow Citizens Fight Fish Crier Flux Fog Follies From The Shore Goldwing Moth Gone Government Graceland Graves Gypsy Halsted Street Car Happiness Harrison Street Court Have Me Hydrangeas Ice Handler In A Back Alley In A Breath Iron It Is Much I Am The People The Mob I Sang Jack Jan Kubelik Jaws Joy June Jungheimers Killers Kin Languages Last Answers Letters To Dead Imagists Limited Losses Lost Mag Mamie Margaret Mask Masses Mill-Doors Momus Monotone Muckers Murmurings In A Field Hospital Nigger Nocturne In A Deserted Brickyard Noon Hour Old Woman Onion Days On The Breakwater On The Way Our Prayer Of Thanks Pals Passers-By Pearl Fog Personality Picnic Boat Plowboy Poems Done On A Late Night Car Pool Poppies Population Drifts Ready To Kill Salvage Sheep Shirt Silver Nails Sketch Skyscraper Soiled Dove Statistics Style Subway Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window Theme In Yellow They Will Say The Answer The Great Hunt The Harbor The Has-Been The Junk Man The Mist The Red Son The Right To Grief The Road And The End The Shovel Man The Walking Man Of Rodin To A Contemporary Bunkshooter To A Dead Man To Beachey 1912 To Certain Journeymen Trafficker Troths Two Two Neighbors Under Under A Hat Rim Under A Telephone Pole Under The Harvest Moon Uplands In May Waiting Wars Whitelight White Shoulders Who Am I Window Working Girls Young Sea

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Charles Baudelaire	Charles Bukowski	Charles H. Sorley
Charles Simic	Charles Webb	Charlotte Bronte
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