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Mike Essig
Poems
Apr 2015
my sweet old etcetera - e e cummings
aunt lucy during the recent
war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybody was fighting
for,
my sister
isabel created hundreds
(and
hundreds)of socks not to
mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers
etcetera wristers etcetera, my
mother hoped that
i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could meanwhile my
self etcetera lay quietly
in the deep mud et
cetera
(dreaming,
et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
One of the strangest poems about war ever written. This was The Great War, WWI. Having to fight in it, Cummings didn't think it was so great.
#war
#cummings
Written by
Mike Essig
Mechanicsburg, PA
(Mechanicsburg, PA)
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