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South Bend Tribune, 10/07/2003 by Agnes Geiger
Machinist publishes book of his works by AGNES GEIGER Tribune Staff Writer
Edwardsburg--A factory worker might seem like an unlikely poet, but work behind the saw is inspirational to writer Londis Carpenter. About 75 percent of his poems come from ideas he created while working as a machinist at Vista Manufacturing Inc. in Elkhart, he said."Most of the time when I work at the saw the rhythm gets going," he said. "Your mind really has nothing to think about, and pretty soon I'll get a rhythm and be thinking of a tune or song."Then the first thing you know I start putting my own words to it. then I'm grabbing a paper and writing it down so I don't forget it."
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