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Thank you for these Lou. I have always loved the e.e.cummings poem. Did not know the Sandburg poem at all. While I was in Nigeria 68-71 Sandburg was being pushed as leading cultural figure by tthe US Aid folk. So I read a fair b it about him. I thought that Robert Frost's comment on Sandburg's politics was very bitchy but fair. Frost said "Carl has been a pacifist between the wars" comradely Gary On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Buffalo Bill's > by E. E. Cummings > > Buffalo Bill's > defunct > who used to > ride a watersmooth-silver > stallion > and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat > Jesus > > he was a handsome man > and what i want to know is > how do you like your blueeyed boy > Mister Death > > --- > > Buffalo Bill > by Carl Sandburg > > BOY heart of Johnny Jones-aching to-day? > Aching, and Buffalo Bill in town? > Buffalo Bill and ponies, cowboys, Indians? > > Some of us know > All about it, Johnny Jones. > > Buffalo Bill is a slanting look of the eyes, > A slanting look under a hat on a horse. > He sits on a horse and a passing look is fixed > On Johnny Jones, you and me, barelegged, > A slanting, passing, careless look under a hat on a horse. > > Go clickety-clack, O pony hoofs along the street. > Come on and slant your eyes again, O Buffalo Bill. > Give us again the ache of our boy hearts. > Fill us again with the red love of prairies, dark nights, lonely wagons, > and the crack-crack of rifles sputtering flashes into an ambush. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
