Bricklayer Love

Carl SandburgCarl Sandburg

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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.

Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg

1878 - 1967/Male/AmericanA poet, writer, and editor known for his contemporary literature.

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