05 April 2004

one of my favorite spring poems

in Just-
spring       when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman



whistles       far       and wee


and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring



when the world is puddle-wonderful



the queer
old balloonman whistles
far       and       wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing



 from hop-scotch and jump-rope and



it's
spring
and
     the


             goat-footed


balloonMan       whistles
far
and
wee



(e.e. cummings, of course)

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