Edward Estlin Cummings Dead
What time el Rouble & la Dollar spin
‘their’ armies into ever smaller change,
patrolling Kopeks for a Quarter search
& Deutschfranc, after decimating Yen
inflates with sterling Rupee in a ditch
(what time, i.e., as moneys in their ‘death’
throes leave room for unbought souls to breathe)
that time, perhaps,
I’m him believing (i.
e., cummings
hold it
CUMMINGS) dead (
P e g g e d o u t
) & I will leave him lie
‘their’ armies into ever smaller change,
patrolling Kopeks for a Quarter search
& Deutschfranc, after decimating Yen
inflates with sterling Rupee in a ditch
(what time, i.e., as moneys in their ‘death’
throes leave room for unbought souls to breathe)
that time, perhaps,
I’m him believing (i.
e., cummings
hold it
CUMMINGS) dead (
P e g g e d o u t
) & I will leave him lie