POEM PAINTED ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE 55TH STEET ILLINOIS CENTRAL VIADUCT!
Rapid Transit
Squealing under city stone
The millions on the millions run,
Every one a life alone,
Every one a soul undone:
There all the poisons of the heart
Branch and abound like whirling brooks
And there through every useless art
Like spoiled meats on a butcher's hooks
Pour forth upon their frightful kind
The faces of each ruined child:
The wrecked demeanors of the mind
That now is tamed, and once was wild.
— James Agee, 1937
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