{"id":5202,"date":"2022-04-06T20:56:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2022-04-06T20:56:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:56:29","slug":"5202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/5202\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sandburg, The Lawyers Know Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d-flex poem__title mb-1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-v-197036e9=\"\">\n<p class=\"card-title\">The Lawyers Know Too Much<br \/>\nCarl Sandburg<br \/>\n1878-1967<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much.<br \/>\nThey are chums of the books of the old John Marshall.<br \/>\nThey know it all, what a dead hand wrote,<br \/>\nA stiff dead hand and its knuckles crumbling,<br \/>\nThe bones of the fingers a thin white ash.<br \/>\nThe lawyers know<br \/>\na dead man\u2019s thoughts too well.<\/p>\n<p>In the heels of the higgling lawyers, Bob,<br \/>\nToo many slippery ifs and buts and howevers,<br \/>\nToo much hereinbefore provided whereas,<br \/>\nToo many doors to go in and out of.<\/p>\n<p>When the lawyers are through<br \/>\nWhat is there left, Bob?<br \/>\nCan a mouse nibble at it<br \/>\nAnd find enough to fasten a tooth in?<\/p>\n<p>Why is there always a secret singing<br \/>\nWhen a lawyer cashes in?<br \/>\nWhy does a hearse horse snicker<br \/>\nHauling a lawyer away?<\/p>\n<p>The work of a bricklayer goes to the blue.<br \/>\nThe knack of a mason outlasts a moon.<br \/>\nThe hands of a plasterer hold a room together.<br \/>\nThe land of a farmer wishes him back again.<br \/>\nSingers of songs and dreamers of plays<br \/>\nBuild a house no wind blows over.<br \/>\nThe lawyers\u2014tell me why a hearse horse snickers<br \/>\nhauling a lawyer\u2019s bones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Published in Smoke and Steel IV: Playthings of the Wind (1922).<\/p>\n<p>[This poem is in the public domain].<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bachlund.org\/The_Lawyers_Know_Too_Much.htm\">Gary Bachlund, The Lawyers Know Too Much (2008).\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lawyers Know Too Much Carl Sandburg 1878-1967 THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much. They are chums of the books of the old John Marshall. They know it all, what a dead hand wrote,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[764,193],"tags":[765,491,132],"class_list":["post-5202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carl-sandburg","category-law-and-poetry","tag-carl-sandburg","tag-law-and-poetry","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sasVL2-5202","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}