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GONE by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: EVERYBODY LOVED CHICK LORIMER IN OUR TOWN
Last Line: NOBODY KNOWS WHERE SHE'S GONE.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; WOMEN; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;

EVERYBODY loved Chick Lorimer in our town
Far off.
Everybody loved her.
So we all love a wild girl keeping a hold
On a dream she wants.
Nobody knows now where Chick Lorimer went.
Nobody knows why she packed her trunk . . . a few old
things
And is gone,
Gone with her little chin
Thrust ahead of her
And her soft hair blowing careless
From under a wide hat,
Dancer, singer, a laughing passionate lover.

Were there ten men or a hundred hunting Chick?
Were there five men or fifty with aching hearts?
Everybody loved Chick Lorimer.
Nobody knows where she's gone.



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