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“On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride” by Carl Sandburg 🇺🇸 (6 Jan 187822 Jul 1967)
Summary and footnote of and on
the testimony of the poet
MacLeish under oath before a
Congressional examining committee
pressing him to divulge the.
portents and meanings of his poems.
Nobody noogers the shaff of a sloo.
Nobody slimbers a wench with a winch
Nor higgles armed each with a niggle
and each the Aimdrat of a smee,
each the inbiddy hum of a smoo.
Then slong me dorst with the flagdarsh.
Then creep me deep with the crawbright.
Let idle winds ploodaddle the dorshes.
And you in the gold of the gloaming
You shall be sloam with the hoolriffs.
On a flimmering floom you shall ride.
They shall tell you bedish and desist.
On a flimmering floom you shall ride.