Why the little e's?

e.e. cummings poem "in Just-" describes a scene that is ambiguous and has an interesting juxtaposition of childhood play and foreboding descriptions of a certain balloon man. At first reading I did take the balloon man as a somewhat benevolent figure. Yet, as I looked over it again, the words "goat-footed" , "queer", "lame" of course do not signify good things. "goat-footed" definitely gives you the image of a cloven-hoofed fiend like in the previous story. The nature of the words set against the backdrop of such innocence only makes the children seem more and more like prey. I have read posts where some have taken this purely as a portrait of joyful springtime. I disagree, yet is it perhaps a comment on the duality of our perceptions? Is the balloon man a benign creature, or a sinister monster?. It could be left unclear because it would reflect how such a suspicion would actually play out; you'd never know.