Portrait

I

by E.E. Cummings

the

nimble

heat

had

5  

long on a certain

taught precarious

holiday

frighteningly

performed

10  

and

at tremont and bromfield i

paused a moment because

on the frying

curb the

15  

quiet face

lay

which had been dorothy

and once

permitted

20  

me for

twenty

iron

men

her common purple

25  

soul

the absurd eyelids sulked

enormous

sobs puckered the foolish

breasts the

30  

droll

mouth

wilted

and not old, harry, a

woman in the crowd

35  

whinnied and a man squeezing her

waist said

the cop's rung for the

wagon but as i was

lifting the horror

40  

of her toylike

head and vainly

tried to

catch one funny

hand opening the hard great

45  

eyes to noone in particular she

gasped almost

loudly

i'm

so

50  

drunG

k, dear








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