hullo lovelies, i know the poetry parrot is meant to soar on mondays, but i'm a working lass and yesterday found me a bit preoccupied with more important things, like whether or not jewel's record is number one in malaysia. anyhow, i share a piece with you by one of my favorite masters of verse, ee cummings. a bit of history: i first encountered ee in high school, when one of my teachers complained about my handwriting. i used to write everything in lower-case print (actually, i still do) and a lot of the time i would neglect to include punctuation in certain places. i think i was trying to be 'artistic' or something. anyhow, that teacher started calling me 'ee' and i was so intrigued by someone named ee who had a handwriting style similar to mine, i started reading his lovely poetry. the poem i present to you is one of the first i read and i think it's my favorite. [since feeling is first] since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis -ee cummings i'm feeling silly, romantic and a bit light-headed lately, forgive me. so i free the parrot from its cage to land on another's shoulder...watch out, i'm sending you an e-mail soon. have a pretty day and a splendid night. cheers, stasia +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+