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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE RUINS OF A COUNTRY INN by PHILIP FRENEAU BITTER-SWEET: CRADLE SONG [OR, BABYHOOD] by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND ON THE BUILDING OF SPRINGFIELD by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER) by HERMAN MELVILLE |