Pound, Cummings, Brautigan +

[fiefoe]

"Fan-Piece, for Her Imperial Lord" / Ezra Pound

O Fan of white silk,
clear as frost on the grass-blade,
You also are laid aside.
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"the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" / e.e. cummings

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds
....the Cambridge ladies do not care, above
Cambridge if sometimes in its box of
sky lavender and cornerless, the
moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
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"Parsley" / Richard Brautigan
I thank the energy, the gods and the
theater of history that brought
us here to this very moment with
this book in our hands, calling
like the future down a green and
starry hall.

"Squash"
The time is right to mix sentences
with dirt and the sun
with punctuation and the rain with
verbs, and for worms to pass
through question marks, and the
stars to shine down on budding
nouns, and the dew to form on
paragraphs.
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'O cover your pale legs,' which scandalized the Russian reading public in 1894;
posted by languagehat at 7:44 AM PST on December 28

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