The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85223 Message #1577648
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
06-Oct-05 - 09:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Need Someone With Very Small Hands
Subject: RE: BS: Need Someone With Very Small Hands
Here's an e.e. cummings poem which is (sort of) on this subject. Read to the end.
the boys i mean are not refined
the boys i mean are not refined they go with girls who buck and bite they do not give a fuck for luck they hump them thirteen times a night
one hangs a hat upon her tit one carves a cross on her behind they do not give a shit for wit the boys i mean are not refined
they come with girls who bite and buck who cannot read and cannot write who laugh like they would fall apart and masturbate with dynamite
the boys i mean are not refined they cannot chat of that and this they do not give a fart for art they kill like you would take a piss
they speak whatever's on their mind they do whatever's in their pants the boys i mean are not refined they shake the mountains when they dance
it may not always be so; and i say
it may not always be so;and i say that if your lips,which i have loved,should touch another's,and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart,as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as,uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;
if this should be,i say if this should be- you of my heart,send me a little word; that i may go unto him,and take his hands, saying,Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
[somewhere i have never travelled]
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the color of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands