| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| II. People Who Must |
| 19. Red-headed Restaurant Cashier |
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| 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. | |
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