Category — Public Transportation

.. makes people not want to sit by you.

e.e.’s work does sound a bit like schizophrenic word salad speech.

According to this book, e.e. was swimming in the Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman deep end of the pool. When describing the human condition, to him “Alive” was to live in heightened emotional intensity, while being “Dead” was equivalent to merely existing–not really living. He used verbs to describe being alive, and nouns with being dead.

dying is fine)but Death

?o
baby
i

wouldn’t like

Death if Death
were
good:for

when(instead of stopping to think)you

begin to feel of it,dying
‘s miraculous
why?be

cause dying is

perfectly natural;perfectly
putting
it mildly lively(but

Death

is strictly
scientific
& artificial &

evil & legal)

we thank thee
god
almighty for dying
(forgive us,o life!the sin of Death

And since I’m on my e.e. kick: