It's getting so chilly here. e. e. cummings was the first poet I really "got" way back in high school when they were trying to teach me how to write a sentence (in 10th grade, for heaven's sake! Public education is really a snake pit.). He wrote this in 1923. O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked
thee
, has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy
beauty . how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and
buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true
to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover
thou answerest
them only with
spring)