| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| VIII. Circles of Doors |
| 18. Baby Vamps |
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| BABY vamps, is it harder work than it used to be? | |
| Are the new soda parlors worse than the old time saloons? | |
| Baby vamps, do you have jobs in the day time or is this all you do? do you come out only at night? | |
| In the winter at the skating rinks, in the summer at the roller coaster parks, | |
| Wherever figure eights are carved, by skates in winter, by roller coasters in summer, | 5 |
| Wherever the whirligigs are going and chicken spanish and hot dog are sold, | |
| There you come, giggling baby vamp, there you come with your blue baby eyes, saying: | |
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| Take me along. | |
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