Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BUFFALO BILL, by CARL SANDBURG


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First Line: Boy heart of johnny jones - aching today?
Last Line: Ambush.
Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917);


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.






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