Monday, October 1, 2018

hist whist - Cummings

hist whist


circa 1923
by e.e. cummings (1894-1962)

hist whist
little ghostthings
tip-toe
twinkle-toe

little twitchy
witches and tingling
goblins
hob-a-nob hob-a-nob

little hoppy happy
toad in tweeds
tweeds
little itchy mousies

with scuttling
eyes rustle and run and
hidehidehide
whisk

whisk look out for the old woman
with the wart on her nose
what she'll do to yer
nobody knows

for she knows the devil ooch
the devil ouch
the devil
ach the great

green
dancing
devil
devil

devil
devil

wheeEEE

hist whist,from COMPLETE POEMS, 1904-1962, by E.E. Cummings,
Copyright © 1923, 1951, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust
Copyright © 1976 by George J. Firmage.

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