Coincidentally I've just this minute stumbled across this Cummings, which I offer as an entr'acte before we all are told what a rotten poet and a rotter Auden truly was:
Space being(don't forget to remember)Curved
(and that reminds me who said o yes Frost
Something there is which isn't fond of walls)
an electromagnetic (now I've lost
the)Einstein expanded Newton's law preserved
conTinuum(but we read that beFore)
of Course life being just a Reflex you
know since Everything is Relative or
to sum it All Up god being Dead(not to
mention inTerred)
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Serene Illustrious and Beatific
Lord of Creation,MAN:
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of Whose compassionate digit,earth's most terrific
quadruped swoons into billiardBalls!
though Auden's poem is probably closer to Frost's "To a Young Wretch".
[This message has been edited by Christopher Mulrooney (edited February 19, 2001).]
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