GONE

Name: Chicago Poems - Gone
Author: Carl Sandburg

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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Chicago: Carl Sandburg, "Gone," Chicago Poems Original Sources, accessed September 16, 2026, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KQBHXCM7ITX7TE3.

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