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BILBEA by CARL SANDBURG

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First Line: BILBEA, I WAS IN BABYLON ON SATURDAY NIGHT
Last Line: AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.

(From tablet writing, Babylonian excavations of 4th
millennium B.C.)

BILBEA, I was in Babylon on Saturday night.
I saw nothing of you anywhere.
I was at the old place and the other girls were there, but no Bilbea.

Have you gone to another house? or city?
Why don't you write?
I was sorry. I walked home half-sick.

Tell me how it goes.
Send me some kind of a letter.
And take care of yourself.




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