{"id":353,"date":"2012-12-17T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T07:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=353"},"modified":"2013-02-19T01:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T05:45:58","slug":"anyone-lived-in-a-pretty-how-town-e-e-cummings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"anyone lived in a pretty how town &#8211; e. e. cummings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:lived_in_a_pretty_how_town.mp3] (2:53)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(audio from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryoutloud.org\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry Out Loud<\/a>)<br \/>\n(read by David Mason)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>anyone lived in a pretty how town<br \/>\n(with up so floating many bells down)<br \/>\nspring summer autumn winter<br \/>\nhe sang his didn&#8217;t he danced his did<\/p>\n<p>Women and men(both little and small)<br \/>\ncared for anyone not at all<br \/>\nthey sowed their isn&#8217;t they reaped their same<br \/>\nsun moon stars rain<\/p>\n<p>children guessed(but only a few<br \/>\nand down they forgot as up they grew<br \/>\nautumn winter spring summer)<br \/>\nthat noone loved him more by more<\/p>\n<p>when by now and tree by leaf<br \/>\nshe laughed his joy she cried his grief<br \/>\nbird by snow and stir by still<br \/>\nanyone&#8217;s any was all to her<\/p>\n<p>someones married their everyones<br \/>\nlaughed their cryings and did their dance<br \/>\n(sleep wake hope and then)they<br \/>\nsaid their nevers they slept their dream<\/p>\n<p>stars rain sun moon<br \/>\n(and only the snow can begin to explain<br \/>\nhow children are apt to forget to remember<br \/>\nwith up so floating many bells down)<\/p>\n<p>one day anyone died i guess<br \/>\n(and noone stooped to kiss his face)<br \/>\nbusy folk buried them side by side<br \/>\nlittle by little and was by was<\/p>\n<p>all by all and deep by deep<br \/>\nand more by more they dream their sleep<br \/>\nnoone and anyone earth by april<br \/>\nwish by spirit and if by yes.<\/p>\n<p>Women and men(both dong and ding)<br \/>\nsummer autumn winter spring<br \/>\nreaped their sowing and went their came<br \/>\nsun moon stars rain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:lived_in_a_pretty_how_town.mp3] (2:53) (audio from: Poetry Out Loud) (read by David Mason) anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn&#8217;t he danced his did Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn&#8217;t they reaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-cummings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}