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Tulips and Chimneys

E. E. Cummings · 1923 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Modernist

In Just-spring, when the world is mud-luscious, a little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and the children come running from marbles and hop-scotch. Elsewhere Buffalo Bill is defunct, the Cambridge ladies live in furnished souls and are unbeautiful, and a lover in green goes riding a gold horse after deer. His first collection, cut by more than half by a nervous publisher, and the book that set out his broken typography.

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