Friday, August 15, 2014

ee cummings on Abe Vigoda


i will wade out
                        till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
                                       Alive
                                                 with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
                                       in the sleeping curves of your body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of sea-girls
                                            Will i complete the mystery
                                            of your flesh Connie Francis
I will rise
               After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
             And set my teeth in the silver of the moon

I will rape you in the motel room of your mind
              After George Hamilton 
gets his tan.

4 comments:

chickelit said...

Who is "ee" and did Abe save the suit as evidence?

Michael Haz said...

A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says five beers, please.

Michael Haz said...

I don't call them voices in my head, I call them script writers.

MamaM said...

ee called to say "ee here!" and I told him he was next in line behind Stan and Jan, because the guy who bunged up his poem by wading in with Connie Francis was busy writing a screed about low life writers who mess around with symbols, and he said he understood because he liked to screw around with punctuation too.