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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

II. People Who Must

16. Soup

I SAW a famous man eating soup.

I say he was lifting a fat broth

Into his mouth with a spoon.

His name was in the newspapers that day

Spelled out in tall black headlines

And thousands of people were talking about him.

When I saw him,

He sat bending his head over a plate

Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon.