And having answered, so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them : Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
excerpt from
Chicago
Carl Sandburg
1916
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Elliot Erwitt
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12840/chicago
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