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My Love Is Building A Building

my love is building a building

around you,a frail slippery

house,a strong fragile house

(beginning at the singular beginning

 

of your smile)a skilful uncouth

prison, a precise clumsy

prison(building thatandthis into Thus,

Around the reckless magic of your mouth)

 

my love is building a magic, a discrete

tower of magic and(as i guess)

 

when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall

 

crumble the mouth-flower fleet

He’ll not my tower,

laborious, casual

 

where the surrounded smile

hangs

 

breathless

Written by
E. E. Cummings
1894-1962 / Male / American
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