I think this is my favorite poem

[lauralh]

I'm one of those people who doesn't really like poetry, but there's quite a few that I like. This one by EE Cummings is pretty good.

The boys I mean

the boys i mean are not refined
they go with girls who buck and bite
they do not give a fuck for luck
they hump them thirteen times a night

one hangs a hat upon her tit
one carves a cross in her behind
they do not give a shit for wit
the boys i mean are not refined

they come with girls who bite and buck
who cannot read and cannot write
who laugh like they would fall apart
and masturbate with dynamite

the boys i mean are not refined
they cannot chat of that and this
they do not give a fart for art
they kill like you would take a piss

they speak whatever's on their mind
they do whatever's in their pants
the boys i mean are not refined

they shake the mountains when they dance

Comments

[greywanderer.livejournal.com]

I don't dig poetry much. it's okay while I'm reading it, but the second I'm done it slips out of my mind. it doesn't resonate with me at all. seems like an exercise in being clever. I respect poets and everything; it's not like I can write the stuff, but I just want to tell them to speak plainly half the time.

I have no idea what that poem above is about.

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[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

geez, that's like the most straightforward poem ever. it's about men, you know, manly rude men.