[Buffalo Bill 's] - a poem 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 blue-eyed boy

Mister Death

 

 

From Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage

 

 

e e cummings in 1920 (the year he wrote this poem)