anyone live in a pretty how town

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Oh, I love this crazy man. LOVE. If he was still alive, I would camp out in front of his house and yell ‘Mr. Cummings! What kind of punctuation are you using on your latest piece?” and screech like a fan girl.

And no, it is not because I am a weird lover of all things grammar and punctuation. It’s just unique and interesting, plain and simple.
Many feel poetry is simply too girly, too lyrical, too ‘petals on dew, I love you forevermore nevermore, roses are blue’
Not the case, I say. Not the case at all. Cummings took poetry to a new level, in my humble opinion. He made true art with words by playing with the positioning and punctuation.
Your eyes are forced to dance around the page from phrase to phrase, and there’s something just purely…fun about it. I can read the same poem twenty times and discover some little detail each time to make me love it even more. It's a literary treasure chest! Hurrah!

Also, imagine getting this from your son:
FATHER DEAR. BE, YOUR FATHER-GOOD AND GOOD,HE IS GOOD NOW, IT IS NOT GOOD TO SEE IT RAIN,FATHER DEAR IS, IT, DEAR, NO FATHER DEAR,LOVE, YOU DEAR,ESTLIN.
He wrote that when he was 6! Can we say prodigy? When I have kids, if they write me something like that, I'm hunting them down a book deal right away. All I'm saying it, man was creative. Imagination up to the treetops.

So, if you hate poetry- I beg you to reconsider. Jump in to something unusual like cummings, and maybe you'll appreciate the whole genre a bit more.

Or maybe you'll hate it, but that's okay- my love for e.e.cummings can combat a thousand haters.

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. "
If anyone could turn me into an optimist, it is this man. Maximus love, Mr. Cummings.