why? by ee cummings

why?
1961

don’t
be
sil
ly

,o no in-

deed;
money
can’t do (never
did &

never will) any

damn
thing
;far
from it; you

‘re wrong, my friend… But

what does
do,
has always done
; &

will do alw

-ays something
Is (guess) yes
you’re
right: my enemy

, Love

ee cummings

ee cummings
Born: 14 October 1894, Massachusetts, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 3 September 1962, New Hampshire, USA

ee cummings was a poet, painter, playwright and author. With an oeuvre of 2900 poems, two autobiographical novels, several essays and four plays he is regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry with much of his work composed of idiosyncratic syntax and lower case spelling for poetic expression