Sunday, April 13, 2014

E.E. Cummings

from No Thanks 1935

23
he does not have to feel because he thinks
(the thoughts of others,be it understood)
he does not have to think because he knows
(that anything bad is which you think good)

because he knows,he cannot understand
(why Jones don't pay me what he knows he owes)
because he cannot understand,he drinks
(and he drinks and he drinks and he drinks and)

not bald. (Coughs.) Two pale slippery small eyes

balanced upon one broken babypout
(pretty teeth wander into which and out
of) Live, dost Thou contain a marvel than
this death named Smith less strange?
Married and lies
afraid; aggressive and:American