Just because the equinox occured without controversy and I went to a baseball game (see Beck's Balls) yesterday, and the Utes beat BYU all to celebrate spring I feel the need to post my favorite spring poem. Though I must say I was a girl who prefered (and still do) "marbles and piracies" to "hop-scotch and jump-rope."
'In Just-'
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
-- e. e. cummings
