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A Poem for our Libertarian Friends

by: elwood

Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 21:21:34 PM EDT


No snark intended.

e.e. cummings was a World War I era poet and pacifist ambulance driver and like Hemingway had his own swagger. His shtick is the lowercase language extending from his poems to his name - but you really won't mistake him for Don Marquis' archie after a while.

Edward Estlin Cummings also called New Hampshire home, or part-time home, I learned right here on BH. His family had a place in the lakes, and he died in Conway.

I keep wanting to quote him approvingly and his poems keep squirming away when I try to grab them. One slitherer that our free staters might like is below the fold. Don't let the snake thing put you off - he wasn't so sloppy and predictable to use that for a shudder...

elwood :: A Poem for our Libertarian Friends
when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
and the sun strikes to gain a living wage-
when thorns regard their roses with alarm
and rainbows are insured against old age

when every thrush may sing no new moon in
if all screech-owls have not okayed his voice
-and any wave signs on the dotted line
or else an ocean is compelled to close

when the oak begs permission of the birch
to make an acorn-valleys accuse their
mountains of having altitude-and march
denounces april as a saboteur

then we'll believe in that incredible
unanimal mankind(and not until)

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That incredible unanimal mankind (0.00 / 0)
Pity that busy monster manunkind
NOT!

interesting poem (0.00 / 0)
I always liked e.e. cummings...

Wait... I mean: i always liked e.e. cummings.

Didn't know he was a NH guy.

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