| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| 8. Omaha |
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| RED barns and red heifers spot the green | |
| grass circles around Omaha—the farmers | |
| haul tanks of cream and wagon loads of cheese. | |
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| Shale hogbacks across the river at Council | |
| Bluffs—and shanties hang by an eyelash to | 5 |
| the hill slants back around Omaha. | |
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| A span of steel ties up the kin of Iowa and | |
| Nebraska across the yellow, big-hoofed Missouri River. | |
| Omaha, the roughneck, feeds armies, | |
| Eats and swears from a dirty face. | 10 |
| Omaha works to get the world a breakfast. | |
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