Chapter 4
poem number four of thirty american poems by various california city landscape by karl sandberg this liver box recording is in the public domain reading by matt perrard california city landscape on a mountain side the real estate agents put up signs marking the city lots to be sold there a man whose father and mother were irish ran a goat farm half-way down the mountain he drove a covered wagon years ago understood how to handle a rifle shot grouse buffalo indians in a single year and now was raising goats around a shanty down at the foot of the mountain two japanese families had flower farms a man and a woman were in rows of sweet peas picking the pink and white flowers to put in baskets and take to the los angeles market they were clean as what they handled there in the morning sun the big people and the baby faces across the road high on another mountain stood a house saying i am it
a commanding house there was the home of a motion picture director famous for lavish whorehouse interiors clothes ransacked from the latest designs for women in the combats of male against female the mountain the mountain the scenery the layout of the landscape and the peace of the morning sun as it happened the miles of houses pocketed in the valley beyond it was all worth looking at worth wondering about how long it might last how young it might be end of poem this recording is in the public domain
