<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552605" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Finding Chicago</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted to write poetry like Carl Sandburg.<br>I wanted to write about big cities and small towns, <br>about open prairies and rivers in the sky.<br>I wanted to write about the people: <br>plumbers, politicians, poets, <br>but I’d never been east of Tucson.<br>So I quit my dead end job, <br>closed out my savings account, all 600 dollars, <br>and went to Chicago in search of a poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chicago—City of the Big Shoulders, wrote Sandburg.<br>But I couldn’t find it.<br>I found Chicago falling down around an old black man<br>leaning on his battered bass case, the way you lean<br>on a friend when you’re in need. And Thomas Jefferson<br>Brown was a man in need, shoulders sagging under<br>the weight of six decades of back alley blues bars<br>and his thirst for blended whiskey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chicago—Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler, <br>wrote Sandburg.<br>But I couldn’t find it.<br>I found Chicago in a rusted heap of railroad cars, twisted<br>tracks and 55 gallon drums where bums built their fires. <br>Factories and warehouses empty, workers sitting in nearby<br>bars drinking beer, expecting checks at the end of the week.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chicago—Stormy, husky, brawling, wrote Sandburg.<br>But I couldn’t find it.<br>I found Chicago shimmering in the shadows of towering<br>concrete, steel and glass along 32nd Street, poets reading <br>in bookstores and coffee houses, children marching <br>to museums, women with slim hips in black silk gowns, <br>men in tuxedos and Italian shoes, dressed for the theater.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted to write poetry like Sandburg.<br>But I couldn’t find his Chicago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clifton+King">Clifton King</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=552605" data-title="Finding Chicago de Clifton King" data-description="I wanted to write poetry like Carl Sandburg. I wanted to write about big cities and small towns, about open prairies and rivers in the sky. I wanted to write about the people: plumbers, politicians, poets, but I’d never been east of Tucson. S..."></div> </div> </div>

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