I LIKE MY BODY WHEN IT IS WITH YOUR

by e.e. cummings

i like my body when it is with your

body.It is so quite a new thing.

Muscles better and nerves more.

i like your body. i like what it does,

i like its hows. i like to feel the spine

of your body and its bones, and the trembling

-firm-smooth ness and which i will

again and again and again

kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,

i like,, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz

of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes

over parting flesh . . . . And big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you quite so new