spring omnipotent goddess Thou
by: e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
- PRING omnipotent
goddess Thou
- dost stuff parks
- with overgrown pimply
- chevaliers and gumchewing giggly
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- damosels Thou dost
- persuade to serenade
- his lady the musical tom-cat
- Thou dost inveigle
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- into crossing sidewalks the
- unwary june-bug and the frivolous
- angleworm
- Thou dost hang canary birds in parlour windows
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- Spring slattern of seasons
- you have soggy legs
- and a muddy petticoat
- drowsy
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- is your hair your
- eyes are sticky with
- dream and you have a sloppy body from
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- 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
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- spring
- of the excellent jostle of
- thy hips
- and the superior
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- slobber of your breasts i
- am so very fond that my
- soul inside of me hollers
- for thou comest
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- and your hands are the snow and thy
- fingers are the rain
- and your
- feet O your feet
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- freakish
- feet feet incorrigible
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- ragging the world