being

e.e. cummings free poetry archive

being
twelve
who hast merely
gonorrhea

Oldeyed
child,to
ambitious weeness
of boots

tiny
add
death
what

shall?

This poem was first published as “Portraits I” in “&.” The previous poem is “Post Impressions XIV.” The next poem is “Portraits II.”

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