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Famous Hoosegow Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Hoosegow poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous hoosegow poems. These examples illustrate what a famous hoosegow poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...fixed up a padded cell and lugged it around.
I locked myself in and nobody knew it.
Only the keeper and the kept in the hoosegow
Knew it—on the streets, in the postoffice,
On the cars, into the railroad station
Where the caller was calling, “All a-board,
All a-board for .. Blaa-blaa .. Blaa-blaa,
Blaa-blaa .. and all points northwest .. all a-board.”
Here I took along my own hoosegow
And did business with my own thoughts.
Do you see? It must be the aprons of silence....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl



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