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Factory Windows Are Always Broken by Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

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Factory windows are always broken.
Somebody’s always throwing bricks,
Somebody’s always heaving cinders,
Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.

Factory windows are always broken.
Other windows are left alone.

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No one throws through the chapel-window
The bitter, snarling derisive stone.

Factory windows are always broken.
Something or other is going wrong.
Something is rotten — I think, in Denmark.
End of the factory-window song.

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"VACHEL is ruddy, sandy- haired, middle-sized, with eyes the color of a green twilight and pale eyebrows surmounted by two remarkable bumps. According to my phrenology, one of these bumps represents love of Springfield, Illinois, and the other love of a square meal with plenty of talk....

He gets on well with everybody, particularly those who know the way to the nearest icebox...."

Christopher Morley, The Bookman, Vol. LIII, Mar. 1921 - Aug. 1921

 

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