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Charcoal sketch by E.E. Cummings
Houghton Library, Harvard University
(Found on page 84 of this book)

E. E. CUMMINGS
Selected Poems

Hardcover, 187 pages
Published by W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: October 1, 1994



An Excerpt:

5

"kitty", sixteen,5'1", white, protitute,

ducking always the touch of must and shall,
whose slippery body is Death's littlest pal,

skilled in quick softness. Unspontaneous. Cute.

the signal perfume of whose unrepute
focusses in the sweet slow animal
bottomless eyes importantly banal,

Kitty, a whore. Sixteen
you corking brute
amused from time to time by clever drolls
fearsomely who do keep their sunday flower.
The babybreasted broad "kitty" twice eight

- beer nothing, the lady'll have a whiskey-sour -

whose least amazing smile is the most great
common divisor of unequal souls.


--E. E. Cummings



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The Enormous Room
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