("crazy jay blue)...")
E. E CUMMINGS
5.
if the Lovestar grows most big
a voice comes out of some dreaming tree
(and how ill stand more still than still)
and what he'll sing and sing to me
and while this dream is climbing sky
(until his voice is more than bird)
and when no am was ever as i
then that Star goes under the earth
6.
crazy jay blue)
demon laughshriek
ing at me
your scorn of easily
hatred of timid
& loathing for( dull all
regular righteous
comfortable )unworlds
thief crook cynic
(swimfloatdrifting
fragment of heaven)
trickstervillain
ig
raucous rogue &
vivid voltaire
you beautiful anarchist
(i salute thee
7.
if up's the word;and a world grows greener
minute by second and most by more-
if death is the loser and life is the winner
(and beggars are rich but misers are poor)
-let's touch the sky:
with a to and a fro
(and a here there where )and away we go
in even the laziest creature among us
a wisdom no knowledge can kill is astir-
now dull eyes are keen and now keen eyes are keener
(for young is the year,for young is the year)
-let's touch the sky:
with a great(and a gay
and a steep )deep rush through amazing day
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