<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353796" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Boes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I waited today for a freight train to pass.<br>Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the<br> bars, went by.<br>And a half a dozen hoboes stood on bumpers between<br> cars.<br>Well, the cattle are respectable, I thought.<br>Every steer has its transportation paid for by the farmer<br> sending it to market,<br>While the hoboes are law-breakers in riding a railroad<br> train without a ticket.<br>It reminded me of ten days I spent in the Allegheny<br> County jail in Pittsburgh.<br>I got ten days even though I was a veteran of the<br> Spanish-American war.<br>Cooped in the same cell with me was an old man, a<br> bricklayer and a booze-fighter.<br>But it just happened he, too, was a veteran soldier, and<br> he had fought to preserve the Union and free the<br> niggers.<br>We were three in all, the other being a Lithuanian who<br> got drunk on pay day at the steel works and got to<br> fighting a policeman;<br>All the clothes he had was a shirt, pants and shoes--<br> somebody got his hat and coat and what money he<br> had left over when he got drunk.</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=353796" data-title="Boes de Carl Sandburg" data-description="I waited today for a freight train to pass. Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the bars, went by. And a half a dozen hoboes stood on bumpers between cars. Well, the cattle are respectable, I thought. Every steer has its transpor..."></div> </div> </div>

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