Thursday, March 12, 2009

you being in love
will tell who softly asks in love,

am i separated from your body smile brain hands merely
to become the jumping puppets of a dream? oh i mean:
entirely having in my careful how
careful arms created this at length
inexcusable, this inexplicable pleasure-you go from several
persons: believe me that strangers arrive
when i have kissed you into a memory
slowly, oh seriously
-that since and if you disappear

solemnly
myselves
ask "life, the question how do i drink dream smile

and how do i prefer this face to another and
why do i weep eat sleep-what does the whole intend"
they wonder. oh and they cry "to be, being, that i am alive
this absurd fraction in its lowest terms
with everything cancelled
but shadows
-what does it all come down to? love? Love
if you like and i like,for the reason that i
hate people and lean out of this window is love,love
and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason
that i do not fall into this street is love.
- E.E. Cummings

Oh goodness...it's time to get out of Rexburg!

4 comments:

Rivka said...

I love it, Sheynah. You SHOULD get out of Rexburg.

And come visit me!

I love you.

Mikayla Skouson said...

Sheynee!! I love you! Come visit me in non rexburg, okay. I know, Avonlea is still rexburg, but you should just come visit me!!

Burke said...

I was going to say "Iowa is nice", but since Riv already invited you out, I'll just second that...the door's open.

carol said...

e.e.cummins and sleep deprived college students are a dangerous combo...I mean, you left all the capitals and punctuation out of the poem. (haha) Try reading William Blake...he's just dark and mysterious. I love you always. You will survive, and then we'll "give Iowa a try". Love, MOM