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Dream singers, / Story tellers, / Dancers, / Loud laughers in the hands of Fate --
My people.
Dish-washers, / Elevator-boys, / Ladies' maids, / Crap-shooters, / Cooks, / Waiters, / Jazzers, / Nurses of babies, / Loaders of ships, / Rounders, / Number writers, / Comedians in vaudeville / And band-men in circuses --
Dream-singers all --
My people.
Story-tellers all --
My people.
Dancers --
God! What dancers!
Singers --
God! What singers!
Singers and dancers, / Dancers and laughers.
Laughers?
Yes, laughers. laughers. laughers --
Loud-mouthed laughers in the hands / Of Fate.