richardmurray

Title: One day a nigger

one day a nigger
caught in his hand
a little star no bigger
than not to understand
"i'll never let you go
until you've made me white"
so she did and now
stars shine at night

author: e e cummings
Book: XAIPE page 24

Title: (tonight

(tonight
in nigger 
street

the snow is perfectly falling, 
the noiselessly snow is 
sexually fingering the uttery asleep

houses)
The brite snow
likes
niggers. it dozes
prettily on unsafe reefs
and dangerous stairs. It
kisses a trillion times beautifully the 
sagging unlighted filth, within
-
which black bodies clutch and cuddle

(i dreamed God took away
the world, 
when the niggers were asleep
and threw it into Hell and
the white and the brown and the yellow
people all turned suddenly

black but God looked down
and the niggers were laughing at Him. 
And He laughed Himself
and told the snow "I
want you to go down into
nigger street, and put that
fire out because I have called off The Last Day.")
ONE
Bif
-
-fing street-lamp and I are
watching, in the perfect noiselessly
air which is falling, 
with kissing bright sexual
fingers fingering the utterly asleep street

the brite snow likes niggers

author: e e cummings
in correspondence between scofield thayer side himself
https://www.theawl.com/2011/05/a-lost-e-e-cummings-poem-discovered/