I will die as many times
as you make me over again
Says the city to the people
I am the woman, the home, the family
I get breakfast and pay the rent
I telephone the doctor, the milkman, the undertaker ;
I fix the streets
for your first and your last ride -
Come clean with me, come clean or dirty,
I am stone or steel of your sleeping numbers ;
I remember all you forget
I will die as many times
as you make me over again
as you make me over again
Says the city to the people
I am the woman, the home, the family
I get breakfast and pay the rent
I telephone the doctor, the milkman, the undertaker ;
I fix the streets
for your first and your last ride -
Come clean with me, come clean or dirty,
I am stone or steel of your sleeping numbers ;
I remember all you forget
I will die as many times
as you make me over again
from
Windy City
Carl Sandburg
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