Cummings Poem

[Robert Z]

It seems you may be thinking of this poem:

l(a

le
af
fa

ll

s)
one
l

iness

...which opens his penultimate book, “95 Poems.”

~r

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:12 PM L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:

> I have a ”complete” edition from maybe 40 years ago, but found a poem of
> his not in it.
>
>       l
>      o
>      n
>      e
>      l
> iness
>
> I can’t recall where I found that. A clear artifact of old typewriters
> with no separate key for the numeral 1.
>
>
> On Nov 2, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Recently, I bought a new edition of his complete poems. Great stuff!
>
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "A salesman is an it that stinks Excuse" is one of my favorites.
>>
>> On Nov 2, 2017 3:05 PM, "L E Bryan" <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>>> One of my favorite poets. Those damned up-floating bells get me all the
>>> time.
>>>
>>> On Nov 2, 2017, at 1:52 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> if i
>>>
>>> or anybody don't
>>> know where it her his
>>>
>>> my next meal's coming from
>>> i say to hell with that
>>> that doesn't matter (and if
>>>
>>> he she it or everybody gets a
>>> bellyful without
>>> lifting my finger i say to hell
>>> with that i
>>>
>>> say that doesn't matter) but
>>> if somebody
>>> or you are beautiful or
>>> deep or generous what
>>> i say is
>>>
>>> whistle that
>>> sing that yell that spell
>>> that out big (bigger than cosmic
>>> rays war earthquakes famine or the ex
>>>
>>> prince of whoses diving into
>>> a whatses to rescue miss nobody's
>>> probably handbag) because i say that's not
>>>
>>> swell (get me) babe not (understand me) lousy
>>> kid that's something else my sweet (i feel that's
>>>
>>> true)
>>>
>>> (E. E. Cummings: 100 Selected Poems, # 52)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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