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9.11.2005

We were talking about ee cummings at work today

And I thought if Josh can put poetry on his blog, so can I. This is one of my favorite poems. One day I will memorize it:


you shall above all things be glad and young
you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young,whatever life you wear


it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.
Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:
i can entirely her only love


whose any mystery makes every man's
flesh put space on;and his mind take off time


that you should ever think,may god forbid
and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:
for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave
called progress,and negation's dead undoom.


I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

at Sunday, September 11, 2005
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4 comments:

Trevor Record said...

Who wrote it, did you?

10:28 PM
Eileen said...

Sorry, ee cummings did.

11:18 PM
Shawn said...

that's a pretty good poem

it would be better
if shit blew up though

ee cummings wrote in little letters
that's pretty neat

but it would still be cooler
if shit blew up

12:43 AM
Josh said...

Hey, I did memorize that poem! I found it in a book I borrowed from my friend Eileen!

That's awesome, dude.

1:55 PM

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