Poem - "Soup" by Carl Sandburg

"Soup" 
by Carl Sandburg


I SAW a famous man eating soup.


I say he was lifting a fat broth

Into his mouth with a spoon.

His name was in the newspapers that day

Spelled out in tall black headlines

And thousands of people were talking about him.



When I saw him,

He sat bending his head over a plate

Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon.