r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

E. E. Cummings

 
                             r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
                      who
  a)s w(e loo)k
  upnowgath
                  PPEGORHRASS
                                        eringint(o-
  aThe):l
             eA
                 !p:
S                                                         a
                          (r
  rIvInG                         .gRrEaPsPhOs)
                                                         to
  rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly
  ,grasshopper;
 
From Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1923, 1931, 1935, 1940, 1951, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1976, 1978, 1979 by George James Firmage.

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Further Reading

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External Links
"r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" Page Proof
Look at a page proof for "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r," including marginal comments Cummings sent to his Brazilian translator, Augusto de Campos.