Mascots
I WILL keep you and bring hands to hold you against a great hunger. I will run a spear in you for a great gladness to die with. I will stab you between the ribs of the left side with a great love worth remembering.
Carl Sandburg
I WILL keep you and bring hands to hold you against a great hunger. I will run a spear in you for a great gladness to die with. I will stab you between the ribs of the left side with a great love worth remembering.
Carl Sandburg’s speaker makes a fierce, unsettling vow. He promises to hold “you” against a great hunger, but then immediately turns to violence: running a spear in you, stabbing you between the ribs on the left side.
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