Tuesday, December 3, 2013

ee cummings on Abe Vigoda

it is funny, you will be dead some day.
By you the mouth hair eyes,and i mean
the unique and nervously obscene

need;it’s funny.  They will all be dead

knead of lustfulhunched deeplytoplay
lips and stare the gross fuzzy-pash
—dead—and the dark gold delicately smash….
grass,and the stars,of my shoulder in stead.

It is a funny,thing.  And you will be

and i and all the days and nights that matter
knocked by sun moon jabbed jerked with ecstasy
….tremble (not knowing how much better

than me will you like the rain’s face and

the rich improbable hands of the Wind)

8 comments:

rcocean said...

Abe died? I thought he was cyborg.

rcocean said...

Fortunately, his humor will live forever. Him and Gabe Kaplan. Funny men.

Forever.

Really.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Abe died?

I just checked, he hasn't out.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

He hasn't checked out I mean.

MamaM said...

Alive and throwing poetry oblations into the improbable hands of the Wind.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Wait, Tessio dies in the Godfather. I am sure of it. Well it did happen off screen.

blake said...

Abe Vigoda is immortal.

No one laments this more than he.

ricpic said...

No Gash!

Everybody's gotta go,
No more to soar and flash;
Worse still: no more to
"Stare the gross fuzzy-pash."