Buffalo Bill's/ defunct -- e e cummings

Sorry people - somehow I postponed instead of sending this yesterday.

Guest poem sent in by Pavithra Krishnan

(Poem #139) Buffalo Bill's/ defunct Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death -- e e cummings

cummings was perhaps one of the first poets to play around with the visual
impact of poetry on paper. with his airy disregard for the upper case
alphabet,
        daring line arrangements
andunusualpunctuation---- cummings ran the
Experimenter's risk of being labelled a gimmicks-guy.
'Buffalo Bill ' is one of cummings' better known pieces. a tribute to the
dead cowboy and folk legend, this poem is typical cummings. i love the way
he gives you this man's life in a few deceptively casual pen strokes, the
way his spacebar stops working just when he needs that non-stop effect, the
way he uses blank space to hold awe,reverence- and muted grief. the direct
address at the end is poignant. perfect.

Pavithra Krishnan.