"And Emily, I'd forgotten that one, but it's good to be reminded, especially as I was talking (pleasantly) to a hot shot big time novelist yesterday at the English Department and starting to waver. There's so much love of fame there! And they sneer at the industrialists for wanting money! Dear Ja
ne! And as for ee cummings, I thought my friend Jimmy Walla, the Genius of Our Generation, was joking the other day when he said I should dress in a SS Officer's uniform and put a sock monkey puppet on my hand and shriek that ee cummings is the only poet! ee cummings is the only poet! until they pushed me off the cliff... You'd think he was joking, too, but he said later he was serious, that ee cummings totally blew apart poetry and nobody's been able to do anything since but dwell comfortably in the ruins... Well I added that last part myself (remember Thumper adding to the rhyme of vegetables, "but they sure are awful stuff to eat"?) Those ee poems are gorgeous."
ne! And as for ee cummings, I thought my friend Jimmy Walla, the Genius of Our Generation, was joking the other day when he said I should dress in a SS Officer's uniform and put a sock monkey puppet on my hand and shriek that ee cummings is the only poet! ee cummings is the only poet! until they pushed me off the cliff... You'd think he was joking, too, but he said later he was serious, that ee cummings totally blew apart poetry and nobody's been able to do anything since but dwell comfortably in the ruins... Well I added that last part myself (remember Thumper adding to the rhyme of vegetables, "but they sure are awful stuff to eat"?) Those ee poems are gorgeous."Jane says:
"Also a fan from childhood of Emily Dickinson - "
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd banish us you know!
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How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!
How public -- like a Frog --
To tell one's name -- the livelong day--
To an admiring Bog!
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