REMEMBRANCE for a great man is this.
The newsies are pitching pennies.
And on the copper disk is the man's face.
Dead lover of boys, what do you ask for now?

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Poet: Carl Sandburg
Poem: 37. In a Back Alley
Volume: Chicago Poems
- Chicago Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1912
Poem of the Day: Oct 7 2006
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