Alley Rats
They were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of -lilacs.â?
And another manner of beard assumed in their chatter a verbal guise
Of -mutton chops,â? -galways,â? -feather dusters.â?
Metaphors such as these sprang from their lips while other street cries
Sprang from sparrows finding scattered oats among interstices of the curb.
Ah-hah these metaphors-and Ah-hah these boys-among the police they were known
As the Dirty Dozen and their names took the front pages of newspapers
And two of them croaked on the same day at a -necktie partyâ? ... if we employ the metaphors of their lips.
Carl Sandburg
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