Home    |    Chicago Poems - Table of Contents      Biography      Book Store
Custom Search


 

STYLE

STYLE--go ahead talking about style.
You can tell where a man gets his style just
     as you can tell where Pavlowa got her legs
     or Ty Cobb his batting eye.

     Go on talking.
Only don't take my style away.
          It's my face.
          Maybe no good
               but anyway, my face.
I talk with it, I sing with it, I see, taste and feel with it,
     I know why I want to keep it.

Kill my style
               and you break Pavlowa's legs,
               and you blind Ty Cobb's batting eye.

 

copyright© 1998   Andyy Barr Productions   -  All rights reserved
Carl Sandburg  Chicago Poems - Online Since Sept 1998
More Websites by Andyy Barr Productions

Idaho Artists On The Web   -   Game Room 2000   -   Play Free Online Games    -    Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems