Lyr Req: the boys i mean are not refined (cummings

Subject: Lyr Req: E.E. Cummings
From: GUEST,TooBlues
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 02:52 PM

Hi,

Is Anyone familiar with a poem
called "The Boys I mean (are not refined)",
supposedly by E.E. Cummings ?
I'm trying to get the full version of it...

Subject: Lyr Add: the boys i mean are not refined (cummings
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 03:22 PM

the boys i mean are not refined
e e cummings [1935]

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

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: E.E. Cummings
From: Fliss
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 03:33 PM

with up so floating many bells down:)

Subject: RE: Req: ee cummings-the boys i mean are not refined
From: mack/misophist
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 07:50 PM

I have a hunch there's a context to this. Does any one know it? Such as, 'what boys does he mean anyway?'

Subject: RE: Req: ee cummings-the boys i mean are not refined
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 09:47 PM

Well, that's one I wasn't familar with.

Thanks!

My best guess of "who the boys are" in this poem is that they're a bunch of lads who went to an all male college in the 1960's as I did. What a weird distorted institution we found ourselves in. It's a miracle we were able to reintegrate ourselves back into society.

Charley Noble