Social Commentaries

Factory Windows are always Broken

by Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931

From The Congo and Other Poems (1914)

Social Commentaries

Factory windows are always broken.
Somebody's always throwing bricks,
Somebody's always heaving cinders,
Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.

Factory windows are always broken.
Other windows are let alone.
No one throws through the chapel-window
The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

Factory windows are always broken.
Something or other is going wrong.
Something is rotten--I think, in Denmark.
End of the factory-window song.

MLA

Lindsay, Vachel. “Factory Windows are always Broken.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/97/.

Chicago

Lindsay, Vachel. “Factory Windows are always Broken.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/97/.

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