Poem-A-Day: Cahoots by Carl Sandburg

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Cahoots  by Carl Sandburg   Play it across the table. What if we steal this city blind? If they want any thing let 'em nail it down. Harness bulls, dicks, front office men, And the high goats up on the bench, Ain't they all in cahoots? Ain't it fifty-fifty all down the line, Petemen, dips, boosters, stick-ups and guns--         what's to hinder?         Go fifty-fifty. If they nail you call in a mouthpiece. Fix it, you gazump, you slant-head, fix it.         Feed 'em. . . . Nothin' ever sticks to my fingers, nah, nah,         nothin' like that, But there ain't no law we got to wear mittens--         huh--is there? Mittens, that's a good one--mittens! There oughta be a law everybody wear mittens. Today's poem is in the public domain. Poetry by Sandburg The Complete Poems   Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. March 24, 2013 Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on January 6, 1878. He is the author of The Chicago Poems (1916) and Smoke and Steel (1920). He died in 1967. Related Poems Some People by Wislawa Szymborska America by Claude McKay Museum Guard by David Hernandez

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