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2006-03-08 10:02:27
From: Eric B.
(Urbana, IL)
A favorite E. E. Cummings poem to kick things off:
pity this busy monster,manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim(death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
--electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange;lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born--pity poor flesh
and trees,poor stars and stones,but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence. We doctors know
a hopeless case if--listen:there's a hell
of a good universe next door;let's go
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| 2006-03-08 10:05:06: Eric B.
(Urbana, IL)Unfortunately, Douban doesn't allow very much freedom with formatting, which tends to matter in rendering Cummings's poems. For the original formatting, please see: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8454/554.htm
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