P&FQ - Poetry and Fascinating Quotes: Poem - "Red-headed Restaurant Cashier" by Carl Sandburg

"Red-headed Restaurant Cashier"

by Carl Sandburg

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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