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Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you
Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you
Approximate author period: c. 1922 AD · modern
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- E.E. Cummings
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- Approximate author period: c. 1922 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for E. E. Cummings: documented activity in 1922. Wikidata Q298703, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298703 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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