Portrait

IV

by E.E. Cummings

i walked the boulevard

i saw a dirty child

skating on noisy wheels of joy

pathetic dress fluttering


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behind her a mothermonster

with red grumbling face

cluttered in pursuit

pleasantly elephantine


while nearby the father

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a thick cheerful man

with majestic bulbous lips

and forlorn piggish hands


joked to a girlish whore

with busy rythmic mouth

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and silly purple eyelids

of how she was with child








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Transcribed and formatted for Internet reading, with addition of line numbers, from the 1923 (Thomas Seltzer, Inc.) hardcover edition of Tulips and Chimneys by E.E. Cummings.