sonnet entitled how to run the world
by e. e. cummings (1894 – 1962)
A always don’t there B being no such thing
for C can’t cast no shadow D drink and
E eat of her voice in whose silence the music of spring
lives F feel opens but shuts understand
G gladly forget little having less
with every least each most remembering
H highest fly only the flag that’s furled
(sestest entitled grass is flesh or seim
who can and bathe who must or any dream
means more than sleep as more than know means guess)
I item i immaculately owe
dying one life and will my rest to these
children building this rainman out of snow
true lovers in each happening of their hearts
by e. e. cummings
true lovers in each happening of their hearts
live longer than all which and every who;
despite what fear denies, what hope asserts,
what falsest both disprove by proving true
(all doubts, all certainties, as villain strive
and heroes through the mere mind’s poor pretend
-grim comics of duration:only love
immortally occurs beyond the mind)
such a forever is love’s any now
and her each here is such an everywhere,
even more true would truest lovers grow
if out of midnight dropped more suns than are
(yes;and if time should ask into his was
all shall,their eyes would never miss a yes)
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