]]> Edward Elstin Cummings was born in Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1894

His travels to France in the early XXth century nurrished his appetite for modernism. Taking a defenite step away from symbolism, he created an innovative, playfull and nontheless strictly formal poetry. ]]> Edward Elstin Cummings est né à Cambridge (Massachusetts) en 1894

Ses voyages en Europe, au début du XXe siècle ont nourri sa soif de modernisme. Se démarquant définitivement du symbolisme, il a créé une poésie innovative, ludique et néanmoins strictement formelle. ]]> Edward Elstin Cummings es un poeta modernista. Despues de haber sido encarcelado en Francia en la primera guerra mudial, regreso a los Estados Unidos donde ha tenido une muy larga carrera de poeta. El formalismo de su poesía da miedo a muchos que no toman el tiempo de descubrir atras de su hermetismo un lirismo auténtico. The Boys I mean are not refined pertenece al periodo erótico de la juventud de E.E.Cummings. ]]> The boys The boys I mean are not refined
they go with girls who buck and bite
they do not give a fuck for luck
they hump them thirteen times a night

one hangs a hat upon her tit
one carves a cross in her behind
they do not give a shit for wit
the boys I mean are not refined

they come with girls who bite & buck
who cannot read and cannot write
who laugh like they would fall apart
and masturbate with dynamite

the boys I mean are not refined
they cannot chat of that and this
they do not give a fart for art
they kill like they would take a piss

they speak whatever's on their mind
they do whatever's in their pants
the boys I mean are not refined
they shake the mountains
when they dance
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