Red-headed Restaurant Cashier - A poem by Carl Sandburg


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Carl Sandburg - 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.
  Shake back your hair; let go your laughter.

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Poet: Carl Sandburg Poem: 19. Red-headed Restaurant Cashier Volume: Smoke and Steel - II. People Who Must Year: Published/Written in 1922 Poem of the Day: Oct 17 2005 Comment 1 of 1, added on November 21st, 2005 at 9:59 AM. This is my absolute favorite poem in the world. The tone of wonder and amaze is beautiful and quite moving. I love the fact that Sandburg focuses on one seemingly unimportant individual and magnifies her until she occupies the entire universe and her lovely, jovial, lovable prescence is displayed for all the world to see. Beth from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Red-headed Restaurant Cashier, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Carl Sandburg with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Carl Sandburg Poem: 19. Red-headed Restaurant Cashier Volume: Smoke and Steel - II. People Who Must Year: Published/Written in 1922 Last read: Jul 24 2008, 12:30PM Poem of the Day: Oct 17 2005 Viewed 3289 times. Added on November 21st, 2005 at 9:59 AM.

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