Carl Sandburg

Mag

I WISH to God I never saw you, Mag.
I wish you never quit your job and came along with me.
I wish we never bought a license and a white dress
For you to get married in the day we ran off to a minister
And told him we would love each other and take care of
    each other
Always and always long as the sun and the rain lasts anywhere.
Yes, I’m wishing now you lived somewhere away from here
And I was a bum on the bumpers a thousand miles away
    dead broke.
         I wish the kids had never come
         And rent and coal and clothes to pay for
         And a grocery man calling for cash,
         Every day cash for beans and prunes.
         I wish to God I never saw you, Mag.
         I wish to God the kids had never come.
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