https://insidiousintent.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] insidiousintent.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] greatpoetry2005-08-02 06:52 pm
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Carl Sandburg . Bricklayer Love

I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer
and you a woman who loves the man who runs a drug store.

I don’t care like I used to; I lay bricks straighter than I
used to and I sing slower handling the trowel afternoons.

When the sun is in my eyes and the ladders are shaky and the
mortar boards go wrong, I think of you.