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ee cummings would have been upset they used capital letters.
just sayin, and one of my faves of his:
mr youse needn’t be so spry
concernin questions arty
each has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain party
gimme the he-man’s solid bliss
for youse ideas i’ll match youse
a pretty girl who naked is
is worth a million statues
I was at the NYPL just after Tom Wolfe died, and they had a lovely display of some of his things. My favorite was a letter from his shoe maker offering up some leather swatches to consider for a pair of shoes. For such a famous sartorialist, it was a fun thing to see.
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