Poem by Edward Estlin Cummings

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Buffalo Bill's
defunct
            who used to
            ride a watersmooth-silver
                                                     stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
                                                                                Jesus
he was a handsome man
                                         and what I want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death

1. i like my body when it is with your
2. when serpents bargain
3. sometimes i am alive because with
4. as freedom is a breakfastfood
5. Spring is like a perhaps hand

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