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by: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Why shall I keep the old name?
What is a name anywhere anyway?
A name is a cheap thing all fathers and mothers leave each child:
A job is a job and I want to live, so
Why does
God
Almighty or anybody else care whether
I take a new name to go by?
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