Humanity i love you (CP 204)

XLI Poems (1925)

IIHumanity i love youbecause you would rather black the boots ofsuccess than enquire whose soul dangles from hiswatch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

parties and because youunflinchingly applaud allsongs containing the words country home andmother when sung at the old howard

Humanity i love you becausewhen you’re hard up you pawn yourintelligence to buy a drink and whenyou’re flush pride keeps

you from the pawn shops andbecause you are continually committingnuisances but moreespecially in your own house

Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit’s there and sitting down

on itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanity

i hate you

because you would rather black the boots ofsuccess than enquire whose soul dangles from hiswatch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

parties and because youunflinchingly applaud allsongs containing the words country home andmother when sung at the old howard

Humanity i love you becausewhen you’re hard up you pawn yourintelligence to buy a drink and whenyou’re flush pride keeps

you from the pawn shops andbecause you are continually committingnuisances but moreespecially in your own house

Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit’s there and sitting down

on itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanity

i hate you

from XLI Poems (1925)