Mythical Chicago
...Once "City of Big Shoulders,"
Stockyards and industrial concerns:
A man's self-worth measured
By muscle and energy burned.
Today the stockyards are shuttered,
The Face of Livelihoods ch...
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Categories:
workingmen, chicago, corruption, hope, murder,
Form: Rhyme
No Forward Planning
...The farmer was defeated, he leaned against a gate
He’d known the harvest would be poor the crop was sown too late
The fertiliser too was wrong and that had caused a panic,
He’d used a super phosp...
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Categories:
on work and workingmen,
Form: I do not know?
Working Class French
...Average high school
Namesake
A mediocre
President
Imposing square box
Towering over small frame homes
Where Mothers wait behind closed doors
And Fathers return at dusk
Newspapers tucked und...
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Categories:
workingmen, life
Form: Narrative