They Ask Each Other Where They Came From

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They Ask Each Other Where They Came From by Carl Sandburg

 AM I the river your white birds fly over?
Are you the green valley my silver channels roam?
The two of us a bowl of blue sky day time and a bowl of red stars night time?
 Who picked you
 out of the first great whirl of nothings
 and threw you here?

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