<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353769" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alley Rats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of “lilacs.”<br>And another manner of beard assumed in their chatter a verbal guise<br>Of “mutton chops,” “galways,” “feather dusters.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Metaphors such as these sprang from their lips while other street cries<br>Sprang from sparrows finding scattered oats among interstices of the curb.<br>Ah-hah these metaphors—and Ah-hah these boys—among the police they were known<br>As the Dirty Dozen and their names took the front pages of newspapers<br>And two of them croaked on the same day at a “necktie party” … if we employ the metaphors of their lips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carl+Sandburg">Carl Sandburg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353769" data-title="Alley Rats de Carl Sandburg" data-description="They were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of “lilacs.” And another manner of beard assumed in their chatter a verbal guise Of “mutton chops,” “galways,” “feather dusters.” Metaphors such as these sprang from their l..."></div> </div> </div>

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