Saturday, November 17, 2007

Humanity I love you

Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both
parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old Howard
Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you're flush your pride keeps
you from the pawn shop and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
always making poems in the lap
of death Humanity
i hate you

by E.E. Cummings


4 comments:

  1. Very popular with me when I was a teenager.

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  2. Wow, I love this poem. I though you didn't like Cummings. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Part of an intelectual's growing up, and not bad these days either!

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  4. "Committing
    nuisances but more
    especially in your own house."

    This is so true!

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here! (At least put on your socks and pants.)