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POEM or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal

SUNY Geneseo Chamber Singers - Gerard Floriano, Director




POEM, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal – E. E. Cummings

take it from me kiddo
believe me
my country, ’tis of
you, land of the Cluett
Shirt Boston Garter and Spearmint
Girl With The Wrigley Eyes (of you
land of the Arrow Ide
and Earl &
Wilson
Collars) of you i
sing:land of Abraham Lincoln and Lydia E. Pinkham,
land above all of Just Add Hot Water And Serve–
from every B. V. D.
let freedom ring
amen. i do however protest, anent the un
-spontaneous and otherwise scented merde which
greets one (Everywhere Why) as divine poesy per
that and this radically defunct periodical. i would
suggest that certain ideas gestures
rhymes, like Gillette Razor Blades
having been used and reused
to the mystical moment of dullness emphatically are
Not To Be Resharpened. (Case in point
if we are to believe these gently O sweetly
melancholy trillers amid the thrillers
these crepuscular violinists among my and your
skyscrapers– Helen & Cleopatra were Just Too Lovely,
The Snail’s On The Thorn enter Morn and God’s
In His andsoforth
do you get me?) according
to such supposedly indigenous
throstles Art is O World O Life
a formula: example, Turn Your Shirttails Into
Drawers and If It Isn’t An Eastman It Isn’t A
Kodak therefore my friends let
us now sing each and all fortissimo A-
mer
i
​
ca, I
love,
You. And there’re a
hun-dred-mil-lion-oth-ers, like
all of you successfully if
delicately gelded (or spaded)
gentlemen (and ladies)– pretty
littleliverpil-
heated-Nujolneeding-There’s-A-Reason
americans (who tensetendoned and with
upward vacant eyes, painfully
perpetually crouched, quivering, upon the
sternly allotted sandpile
–how silently
emit a tiny violetflavoured nuisance: Odor?
ono.
comes out like a ribbon lies flat on the brush






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  • Home
  • BIO
  • CHORAL
    • THE ELECTRONIC ALICE -----LEWIS CARROLL----- (more) >
      • All in the Golden Afternoon & The Lobster Quadrille
      • Jabberwocky
      • Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow
    • POEMS OF CHILDHOOD -----EUGENE FIELD----- >
      • Wynken, Blynken & Nod
      • With Trumpet and Drum
      • Tarantella: Over the Hills and Far Away
      • LIttle Boy Blue
      • The Duel
    • E.E. CUMMINGS SONGS >
      • in Just spring
      • when god lets my body be
      • hist whist
      • Portrait: Buffalo Bill's
      • POEM Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal
      • Jimmie's Got a Goil
    • DYLAN THOMAS >
      • Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    • SCOTTISH TRADITIONAL ---CAROLINA NAIME--- >
      • Wi a Hundred Pipers
  • SOLO VOCAL
    • POEMS OF CHILDHOOD EUGENE FIELD >
      • Little Boy Blue for Soprano, Horn & Piano
      • Tarantella for Soprano, Horn & Piano
    • E.E. CUMMINGS for Solo Voice >
      • In Just Spring
      • Buffalo Bill's defunct
      • when god lets my body be
      • hist whist
  • CHAMBER
    • Two Pieces for Piano >
      • Prelude for Piano
      • Toccata for Piano
    • Two Pieces for Wind Quintet and Piano >
      • Ballad on a Ground
      • Romp for Wind Quintet
    • Piano Trio (VI, Vc, Pno) "Moments Past"
    • Wind Quintet "Moments Past"
    • Tarantella for Wind Quintet
    • Scramble - For Wind Quintet
    • Sonata for Violin and Piano
    • Waltz & Scherzo for Wind Quintet
  • ORCHESTRAL
    • Scamper for Large Orchestra
    • Tarantella: Over the Hills and Far Away
    • Scamper for Small Orchestra
  • WIND & JAZZ ENSEMBLE
    • Scamper for Wind Ensemble
    • Ave Maris Stella for Wind Ensamble
    • L'Homme Arme for Wind Ensemble
    • Iris's March
    • Ballad for Solo Trumpet & Jazz Ensemble
  • Contact