| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Chicago Poems. 1916. |
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| 23. Mag |
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| I WISH to God I never saw you, Mag. | |
| I wish you never quit your job and came along with me. | |
| I wish we never bought a license and a white dress | |
| For you to get married in the day we ran off to a minister | |
| And told him we would love each other and take care of each other | 5 |
| Always and always long as the sun and the rain lasts anywhere. | |
| Yes, I’m wishing now you lived somewhere away from here | |
| And I was a bum on the bumpers a thousand miles away dead broke. | |
| I wish the kids had never come | |
| And rent and coal and clothes to pay for | 10 |
| And a grocery man calling for cash, | |
| Every day cash for beans and prunes. | |
| I wish to God I never saw you, Mag. | |
| I wish to God the kids had never come. | |
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