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may i feel said he by E. E. Cummings

By T.

6 October 2005

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may i feel said he
E. E. Cummings

may i feel said he
(i’ll squeal said she
just once said he)
it’s fun said she

(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she

(let’s go said he
not too far said she
what’s too far said he
where you are said she)

may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she

may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you’re willing said he
(but you’re killing said she

but it’s life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she

(tiptop said he
don’t stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she

(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you’re divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)

MARGINALIA

Can’t sleep. Remembering the time you read this to me, over the phone, in the dark.

ABOUT E. E. CUMMINGS

Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in Eight Harvard Poets (1917). In 1922 he published his first book, The Enormous Room, a fictionalized account of his French captivity. Cummings’ first collection of poems, Tulips and Chimneys, appeared in 1923. Another collection quickly followed: XLI Poems, also in 1925. By the time of his death in 1962 Cummings held a prominent… (more)