Original poem reprinted online here: "Cahoots" by Carl Sandburg Originally read: March 24, 2013 More information about the Poet: Carl Sandburg "Noir feel" that's the first note I put on this poem; however, I didn't realize something until now. The noir ( hardboiled ) genre didn't become popular until the 1920s. I've been looking everywhere on when the poem was created or published, but nothing there. So I have to assume this -- that this poem harkens to that time frame or is a commentary about reproduction of the 1920s. Or maybe I shouldn't make that assumption, in any case, the voice of the poem fits with my ideal version of what the time frame felt like through content, voice, and tone. "Play it across the table. / What if we steal this city blind?" For me, there's a sense of nothing to lose here, because everything is lost. It's an optimistic viewpoint in a Dystopian society -- which is the core of the hardboiled genre,...
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