GUITAR DAD

It's been a crappy week. More layoffs, more massive corporate losses, another stock market nosedive. Clearly what we all need is a good poem. A really good poem.

Here's one by e.e. cummings, a master by any measure:

                      
                      since feeling is first
                      who pays any attention
                      to the syntax of things
                      will never wholly kiss you;

                      wholly to be a fool
                      while Spring is in the world

                      my blood approves,
                      and kisses are a better fate
                      than wisdom
                      lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
                      -- the best gesture of my brain is less than
                      your eyelids' flutter which says

                      we are for each other: then
                      laugh, leaning back in my arms
                      for life's not a paragraph

                      and death i think is no parenthesis

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