Just Spring

By e.e. cummings

I shall digress from my classics for a moment to bring you this rather modern poem, because it is a lovely evocation of Spring excitement. The way it is typed is the way Mr. cummings had it, so I have left it so.

in Just
spring     when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles      far       and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far     and      wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and
       the


             goat-footed

balloonMan      whistles
far
and
wee

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