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Buffalo


 

 

                                    Maker of the Chicken Wing, Originator of Beef on Weck,

                                                Snow City of the Nation, Home of Beautiful Niagara Falls

                                                           

Yes, we have a beautiful city with beautiful houses and beautiful people

But you don’t see the people living in shacks

Not knowing what they will eat for their next meal

Living on a few dollars a week for a family of five

 

Yes, we have beautiful buildings with beautiful jobs

But you don’t see the people standing in the unemployment line each week

Going every day to look for work

Only to go home more hopeless than before

 

Yes, we have a lot of beauty in this city,

But you don’t look  long enough to see the ugly

 

And with all that we have accomplished,

                                    Maker of the Chicken Wing, Originator of Beef on Weck,

                                    Snow City of the Nation, and Home of Beautiful Niagara Falls

Double Bracket: Poem Imitation of Carl SandburgWe still have the ugly in this city waiting to become beautiful. 

 

 

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