E.E. Cummings - Buffalo Bills

In this poem, Cummings seems to be down in the dumps about something. By using words like used to and was makes it seem that something in his past has occured that was not very pleasent. Also by asking "how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death" brings to my mind that he is not happy with something someone has done to him. This probably was a tramatic issue for him and the only way he knows how to express it is through death or discomfort.