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100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
my naked lady framed
in twilight is an accident

whose niceness betters easily the intent
of geniusβ€”
                        painting wholly feels ashamed
before this music,and poetry cannot
go near because perfectly fearful.

meanwhile these speak her wonderful
But i(having in my arms caught

the picture)hurry it slowly

to my mouth,taste the accurate demure
ferocious
              rhythm of
                            precise
laziness.  Eat the price

of an imaginable gesture

exact warm unholy
Book: 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
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