| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| II. People Who Must |
| 14. Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio |
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| IT’S a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes | |
| The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts. | |
| The banjo tickles and titters too awful. | |
| The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers. | |
| The cartoonists weep in their beer. | 5 |
| Ship riveters talk with their feet | |
| To the feet of floozies under the tables. | |
| A quartet of white hopes mourn with interspersed snickers: | |
| “I got the blues. | |
| I got the blues. | 10 |
| I got the blues.” | |
| And … as we said earlier: | |
| The cartoonists weep in their beer. | |
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