The abracadabra boys—have they been in the stacks and cloisters? 

Have they picked up languages for throwing into chow mein poems?

Have they been to a sea of jargons and brought back jargons? 

From A Poem A Day: North America

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1970)

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