The People Will Live On
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The People Will Live On Carl Sandburg, from "The People, Yes" The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds, The people so peculiar in renewal and comeback, You can't laugh off their capacity to take it. The mammoth rests between his cyclonic dramas. The people so often sleepy, weary, enigmatic, is a vast huddle with many units saying: " I earn my living. I make enough to get by and it takes all my time If I had more time I could do more for myself and maybe for others. I could read and study and talk things over and find out about things. It takes time. I wish I had the time." The people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum: phantom and gorilla twist- ing to moan with a gargoyle mouth: "They buy me and sell me... it's...

