Edward Estlin Cummings (Эдвард Эстлин Каммингс)

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when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
and the sun strikes to gain a living wage -
when thorns regard their roses with alarm
and rainbows are insured against old age

when every thrush may sing no new moon in
if all screech-owls have not okayed his voice
- and any wave signs on the dotted line
or else an ocean is compelled to close

when the oak begs permission of the birch
to make an acorn - valleys accuse their
mountains of having altitude - and march
denounces april as a saboteur

then we'll believe in that incredible
unanimal mankind (and not until)

1. as freedom is a breakfastfood
2. i like my body when it is with your
3. Spring is like a perhaps hand
4. the boys i mean are not refined
5. pity this busy monster, manunkind

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