Cummings Poem

[Johnny Marr]

‘Humanunkind’ is a clever and all too applicable coinage of his.

On Sunday, November 5, 2017, Costas Stergiou <gorgonos at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello people,
>
>     I am sure you will enjoy this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?
> v=fSXxH-91aGc
>
> On 3 November 2017 at 23:21, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lebryan at sonic.net');>> wrote:
>
>> Yes!
>>
>> Trying to reconstruct the poem from bits and pieces of my organic RAM, I
>> only recalled the use of the lower case “L” as a one in loneliness. Now the
>> falling leaf comes back to me. On my default font, “1" and “l” are
>> distinguishable. I suppose spelling the “one” horizontally makes the
>> “one-ly-ness” more obvious, but e.e. was never much for making his poetry
>> obvious.
>>
>> I was never “into” poetry until one evening sitting in a coffee house
>> close to the university with a bunch of fellow mathematic graduate
>> students, one of them, in a pause of a discussion of R. L. Moore’s arc
>> theorem which we all needed to prove to earn an “A” in topology, declaimed
>> in a loud voice, “What if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to
>> summer’s lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal
>> stars awry.”
>>
>> “HUH?”
>>
>> So began my interest, strictly as a voyeur, in poetry.
>>
>> Lawrence
>>
>>
>>  On Nov 3, 2017, at 5:03 AM, Robert Z <bertisfine at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bertisfine at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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