spring omnipotent goddess Thou

Portrait of e.e. cummings
e.e. cummings 1894–1962

spring omnipotent goddess Thou dost stuff parks with overgrown pimply chevaliers and gumchewing giggly

damosels Thou dost persuade to serenade his lady the musical tom-cat Thou dost inveigle

into crossing sidewalks the unwary june-bug and the frivolous angleworm Thou dost hang canary birds in parlour windows

Spring slattern of seasons you have soggy legs and a muddy petticoat drowsy

is your hair your eyes are sticky with dream and you have a sloppy body from

being brought to bed of crocuses when you sing in your whisky voice the grass rises on the head of the earth and all the trees are put on edge

spring of the excellent jostle of thy hips and the superior

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  1. Kassondra United States

    i kind of like this poem but it is kind of odd to me.

  2. Jacob Israel Chilton United States

    incomplete poem

    "spring omnipotent goddess Thou" does not stop at the word "superior" but goes on for another 11 lines. (I have no idea why this mistake is made, but this is not the only website to have incompletely reproduced the poem.) Following "superior" & a line break, the poem continues:

    slobber of your breasts i
    am so very fond that my
    soul inside of me hollers
    for thou comest

    and your hands are the snow and thy
    fingers are the rain
    and your
    feet O your feet

    freakish
    feet feet incorrigible

    ragging the world

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