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    The poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople -it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than the squarerootof- minusone. You and I are human beings;mostpeople are snobs. Take the... more

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  • Rated by insyen on Jul 05, 9:56pm

    The poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople -it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than the squarerootof- minusone. You and I are human beings;mostpeople are snobs. Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most- people? Catastrophe unmitigated. Socialrevolution. The cultured aristocrat yanked out of his hyperexclusively ultravoluptuous super-palazzo,and dumped into an incredibly vulgar detentioncamp swarming with every conceivable species of undesireable organism. Mostpeople fancy a garanteed birthproof safetysuit of nondestructible selflessness. If mostpeople were to be born twice they'd improbably call it dying- you and i are not snobs. We can never be born enough. We are human beings; for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery,the mystery of growing: the mystery which happens only and whenever we are faithful to ourselves. you and i wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life,for eternal us,is now;and now is much too busy being a little more than everything to seem anything,catastrophic included. Life,for mostpeople,simply isn't. Take the socalled standardofliving. What do mostpeople mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science,in its finite but unbounded wisdom,has succeeded in selling their wives. If science could fail,a mountain's a mammal. Mostpeople's wives can spot a genuine delusion of embryonic omni- potence immediately and will accept no subsitutes. -luckily for us,a mountain is a mammal.... -e. e. cummings

  • Reviewed by rockpaperpen on May 22, 10:19pm

    Nice collection!

  • Rated by queenrosegose on May 07 2009, 11:25pm

    The more I read this Cummings, the more I think he really is the man.

  • Rated by soulnbnme on Apr 11 2009, 3:44pm

    cummings is one of my favorites.. glad to see this site out there

  • Rated by DeFrosting on Mar 19 2009, 11:03am

    I love good poetry. Thanks for sharing.

  • Rated by amruthaindian on Feb 24 2009, 3:50am

    I love good poetry. Thanks for sharing.

  • Rated by Dee-25 on Feb 16 2009, 12:16pm

    "To be nobody but yourself -in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." ~ E.E. Cummings A play with words.... only a select can master something so beautiful!!

  • Rated by bexs81 on Feb 04 2009, 5:13am

    one crazy guy