Thursday, January 5, 2012

Gre.e.ting the New Year


Oh, e.e., why speakest thou my heart always? Why dost thou incessantly put into words that which my heart longs to say? In this new year, speak my heart again:

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell
and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal
tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex-
ecute strides of cobalt
nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming
something a little different,in fact
myself
Hereupon helpless i utter lilac shreiks and scarlet bellowings.
-e.e. cummings

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