why must itself up every of a park
- E.E.Cummings

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why must itself up every of a park
anus stick some quote statue unquote to
prove that a hero equals any jerk
who was afraid to dare to answer "no"?
quote citizens unquote might otherwise
forget(to err is human;to forgive
divine)that if the quote state unquote says
"kill" killing is an act of christian love.
"Nothing" in 1944 AD
"can stand against the argument of mil
itary necessity"(generalissimo e)
and echo answers "there is no appeal
from reason"(freud) — you pays your money and
you doesn't take your choice.  Ain't freedom grand

 

 
 
 

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From Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E.E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used without the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1923, 1931, 1935, 1940, 1951, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1991 by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1976, 1978, 1979 by George James Firmage. Borrowed from The Academy of American Poets

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