[raise the shade]

raise the shade will youse dearie?
rain
wouldn’t that


get yer goat but
we don’t care do
we dearie we should
worry about the rain


huh
dearie?
yknow
i’m


sorry for awl the
poor girls that
gets up god
knows when every



day of their
lives
aint you,
oo-oo. dearie


not so
hard dear


you’re killing me



E. E. Cummings, “raise the shade” from Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George J. Firmage. Source: Poetry Foundation Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1991)