8/10/2011

50 poems, no. 12

(will you teach a
wretch to live
straighter than a needle)

ask
    her
         ask
              when
                   (ask and
                    ask
                    and ask
again and)ask a 
brittle little
person fiddling
in
the
rain

(did you kiss
a girl with nipples
like pink thimbles)

ask
     him
          ask
               who
                   (ask and
                   ask
                   and ask
ago and)ask a
simple
crazy
thing
singing
in the snow

- e e cummings

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