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cwydro

(51,308 posts)
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 03:11 AM Jan 2013

question: looking for a poetry (I think) quote

I thought it was ee cummings, but perhaps not.

Something about "my drunken heart lurching along the cobblestones meeting the stern policeman of the mind"

Don't know the quote and only remember those parts. Used to be able to find it on google, but now all I get is hits on Howard Stern. Yikes.

Anybody know?

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question: looking for a poetry (I think) quote (Original Post) cwydro Jan 2013 OP
When I googled your quote I found this thread. In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #1
link? cwydro Jan 2013 #2
Sorry, here ya go In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #3
e. e. cummings: along the brittle treacherous bright streets pinboy3niner Jan 2013 #4
Thank you! cwydro Jan 2013 #5

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
4. e. e. cummings: along the brittle treacherous bright streets
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 03:31 AM
Jan 2013
along the brittle treacherous bright streets

of memory comes my heart singing like
an idiot whispering like drunken man

who(at a certain corner suddenly)meets
the tall policeman of my mind.

awake
being not asleep elsewhere our dreams began
which now are folded:but the year completes
his life as a forgotten prisoner

-"Ici?"-"Ah non mon chéri;il fait trop froid"-
they are gone:along these gardens moves a wind br
inging
rain and leaves filling the air with fear
and sweetness....pauses. (Halfwhispering....half
singing

stirs the always smiling chevaux de bois)

when you were in Paris we met here




 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
5. Thank you!
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 03:36 AM
Jan 2013

I thought it was ee cummings, but I'm over on another page searching his poems and could not find it.

Again, thanks muchly!

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