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This ain't a bad poem but for the whiskey and eggs. It seems that he is holding this down and dirty street cred juxtaposition as the defining image of the poem. I am a sucker for those cliches but it seems to me this poem could do without the first five lines.

Strikes me as being an eloquent expression of a time and place. Fear not the cliche, for it communicates much - first five lines let the rest speak for themselves (humble opinion)

Respect

it seems to me that the initial lines of the poem represent life in its simplicity and without rules, not making a spectacle of things.

if it werent for the reference to chicago being a more humble place than we see, then surely it would take effect from the later references to being humble musicians wanting no recognition, which i can relate to entirely. sometimes.

How odd to log on in order edit a now-famous poem. The first five lines. . . they're there. They've been there awhile. Is there something in Robert Frost or John Donne that needs to go too?