"Buffalo Bill's" and "hist whist" 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

From Tulips and Chimneys  (1923)

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hist      whist
little ghostthings
tip-toe
twinkle-toe

little twitchy
witches and tingling
goblins
hob-a-nob     hob-a-nob

little hoppy happy
toad in tweeds
tweeds
little itchy mousies

with scuttling
eyes    rustle and run     and
hidehidehide
whisk

whisk     look out for the old woman
with the wart on her nose
what she’ll do to yer
nobody knows

for she knows the devil     ooch
the devil     ouch
the devil
ach     the great

green
dancing
devil
devil

devil
devil

        wheeEEE

From Tulips and Chimneys  (1923)