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E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

Xaipe: 24

one day a nigger
caught in his hand
a little star no bigger
than not to understand
 
“i’ll never let you go
until you’ve made me white”
so she did and now
stars shine at night.

Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems

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The sun inside a heart made with hands
love is more thicker than forget

love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly
 10
In Just-

in Just- spring       when the world is mud… luscious the little lame baloonman whistles       far       and wee
In the Rain-

in the rain- darkness,     the sunset being sheathed i sit and think of you the holy
After Five

after five times the poem of thy remembrance surprises with refrain of unreasoning summer
The Mind Is Its Own Beautiful Prisoner

the mind is its own beautiful pris… Mind looked long at the sticky moo… opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one a… The last thing he saw was you
My Girl’s Tall With Hard Long Eyes

my girl’s tall with hard long eyes as she stands,with her long hard h… silence on her dress,good for slee… is her long hard body filled with… like a white shocking wire, when s…
 1
The Phonograph’s Voice Like a Keen Spider Skipping

(the phonograph’s voice like a kee… quickly over patriotic swill. The,negress,in the,rocker by the,c… and tipping,the flocks of pigeons.… ful loneliness,and the rather fat
Finis

OVER silent waters day descending night ascending floods the gentle glory of the sun… In a golden greeting
as freedom is a breakfastfood

as freedom is a breakfastfood or truth can live with right and w… or molehills are from mountains ma… —long enough and just so long will being pay the rent of seem
 1
Raise the Shade

raise the shade will youse dearie? rain wouldn’t that get yer goat but
Between the Breasts

between the breasts of bestial Marj lie large men who praise Marj’s cleancornered strokable
 1
Xaipe: 46

a kike is the most dangerous machine as yet invented by even yankee ingenu ity(out of a jew a few dead dollars and some twisted laws…
Hist Whist

hist      whist little ghostthings tip-toe twinkle-toe little twitchy
anyone lived in a pretty how town

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells do… spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his d… Women and men(both little and smal…
Spring is like a perhaps hand

III Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window, into which people look(w…
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