derivative (?) couplet (?) from an e.e. poem or thereabouts (?)

                   e.e.'s poem: "Buffalo Bill's defunct"––                  

or–– the bottom-feeder's guide through a poem by the man who

delivered "six nonlectures" at Harvard University.

intro:

1952-(1953)

Cambridge, Massachusetts

my poem:

someday I’ll be

the handsome man

who rode a horse

a silver horse

silver–– 

smooth as water

––water smooth

who broke 5 pigeons

by the count of them he said

but I’ll have to die

before he'd say of me:  Jesus

he was a handsome man