19. Red-headed Restaurant Cashier. II. People Who Must. Sandburg, Carl. 1920. Smoke and Steel

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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

II. People Who Must

19. Red-headed Restaurant Cashier

SHAKE back your hair, O red-headed girl.
Let go your laughter and keep your two proud freckles on your chin.
Somewhere is a man looking for a red-headed girl and some day maybe he will look into your eyes for a restaurant cashier and find a lover, maybe.
Around and around go ten thousand men hunting a red headed girl with two freckles on her chin.
I have seen them hunting, hunting.	5
Shake back your hair; let go your laughter.