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if i should sleep with a lady called death by ee c

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if i should sleep with a lady called death
 
  if I should sleep with a lady called death
get another man with firmer lips
to take your new mouth in his teeth
(hips pumping pleasure into hips).

Seeing how the limp huddling string
of your smile over his body squirms
kissingly, I will bring you every spring
handfuls of little normal worms.

Dress deftly your flesh in stupid stuffs,
phrase the immense weapon of your hair.
Understanding why his eye laughs,
I will bring you every year

something which is worth the whole,
an inch of nothing for your soul.

ee cummings


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Emily Zee (1/1/2007 11:42:00 PM)
wow... somehow I've never even seen this one before... amazing poem, almost grotesque
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