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100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard

Humanity i love you because
when youโ€™re hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
youโ€™re flush pride keeps

you from the pawn shop and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
itโ€™s there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you
Book: 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
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