Poem: “Portraits IV” by Edward Estlin Cummings

Tulips and Chimneys – 1923

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i walked the boulevard

i saw a dirty child
skating on noisy wheels of joy

pathetic dress fluttering

behind her a mothermonster
with red grumbling face

cluttered in pursuit

pleasantly elephantine

while nearby the father

a thick cheerful man

with majestic bulbous lips
and forlorn piggish hands

joked to a girlish whore

with busy rythmic mouth
and silly purple eyelids

of how she was with child

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