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[which_chick]

Meme from cousin_sue:

Share a poem with me, then post one (a different one, and I say that because everyone, no matter how poor, is rich enough to have at least two poems) on your lj.



In Just by e. e. cummings

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little lame baloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddyandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old baloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed

baloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

Comments

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

I exhausted my poetry stores with the Philip Lopate last night and the Jill Scott a few months ago.

Unless you include one I remember from my teenage years:

The after-effects
Of a mother's neglects
May alter her boy's
Orientation to sex.

But the converse is worse
If she over-protects
The pattern of
Oedipus Rex.

Can't remember who it's by or what it was called, except that it was from a book called Scrap Irony (which I would love to get my hands on because it had some truly amusing poems in it).

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

I like one that a seventh grader in my Middle School wrote :

Mary had a little lamb
she kept it in the closet
and when she let it out of there
it left a small deposit.