Rewriting Ovid Lite - e.e. cummings

I encountered people who were trying to be like e.e. cummings before I encountered e.e. cummings. I thought it was usually pretty flimsey and sometimes pretencious. Then I read e.e. cummings. Oooooooooo. Yeah. I see what they were trying to do. And I have done my own experiments in that line, I confess.

This is all to preface what I want to say about today's poem of the day from Poets.org -- which I dig, I really dig poems of the day, as you can tell.

Here's the poem with "adventurous formatting:"

http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20091?utm_source=poemaday_041808&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content_link&utm_term=conent_mainpoemlink

My response: "Still not e.e. cummings"

With e.e. cummings you end up wanting to read the damn thing. You wonder if you could say it and do it justice. His work wasn't just brief enough not to give you a headache, but it was also charming -- and we all like a little charm? Right? So don't read the Poets.org poem today. Here an e.e. cummings' poem that's relevant in this, an election year.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/next-to-of-course-god-america-i/