my sweet old etcetera
aunt lucy during the recent

war could and what
is more did tell you just
what everybody was fighting

for,
my sister

isabel created hundreds
(and
hundreds) of socks not to
mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers

etcetera wristers etcetera, my
mother hoped that

i would die etcetera
bravely of course my father used
to become hoarse talking about how it was
a privilege and if only he
could meanwhile my

self etcetera lay quietly
in the deep mud et

cetera
(dreaming,
et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)

—

e.e. cummings (1894-1962)

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems 1904-1962; Liveright, New York; ISBN 0871401525
ee cummings, jouw ogen hebben hun stilte; Bert Bakker, Amsterdam; ISBN 903511762X
E.E. Cummings, Gedichte; Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen bei München; ISBN 3784605451
E.E. Cummings, like a perhaps hand; Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen bei München; ISBN 3784605508
E.E. Cummings, Poèmes choisis; José Corti, Paris; ISBN 2714308570