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e.e. cummings - you being in love... (XII)

you being in love
will tell who softly asks in love,

am i separated from your body smile brain hands merely
to become the jumping puppets of a dream?   oh i mean:
entirely having in my careful how
careful arms created this at length
inexcusable, this inexplicable pleasure-you go from several
persons: believe me that strangers arrive
when i have kissed you into a memory
slowly, oh seriously
-that since and if you disappear

solemnly
myselves
ask "life, the question how do i drink dream smile

and how do i prefer this face to another and
why do i weep eat sleep-what does the whole intend"
they wonder. oh and they cry "to be, being, that i am alive
this absurd fraction in its lowest terms
with everything cancelled
but shadows
-what does it all come down to?    love?     Love
if you like and i like,for the reason that i
hate people and lean out of this window is love,love
and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason
that i do not fall into this street is love."

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Poet: e.e. cummings
Poem: you being in love... (XII)

Comment 8 of 8, added on February 16th, 2008 at 2:34 PM.

love is what kills you and keeps you alive.. paradox in itself, it is the meaning and the means..

Anita from Romania
Comment 7 of 8, added on July 11th, 2007 at 2:12 AM.

I love this poem so much. I read it for the first time right at this moment, and I cannot agree with it more. I wish I had a love like this, and that my love was as true as this poem.

Jane
Comment 6 of 8, added on December 5th, 2005 at 5:57 PM.

This poem is grate becuase EE Cummings use of assonece, conssonence, and intrenal ryme skeem.

Angelina Pitt from Singapore

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