the boys i mean are not refined

The boys i mean are not refined

E.E. Cummings



Ce serait hasardeux de tenter une traduction. Il y a des expressions typiquement anglaises.



One of the greatest "dirty" poems in the English language, E. E. Cummings’s "the boys i mean are not refined" was originally published as a special insert in nine copies of his volume No Thanks. You still won’t find it in too many anthologies.

　

the boys i mean are not refined
they go with girls who buck and bite
they do not give a fuck for luck
they hump them thirteen times a night

one hangs a hat upon her tit
one carves a cross on her behind
they do not give a shit for wit
the boys i mean are not refined

they come with girls who bite and buck
who cannot read and cannot write
who laugh like they would fall apart
and masturbate with dynamite

the boys i mean are not refined
they cannot chat of that and this
they do not give a fart for art
they kill like you would take a piss

they speak whatever's on their mind
they do whatever's in their pants
the boys i mean are not refined
they shake the mountains when they dance.

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