Another great poem (ee cummings)

With all that's happening around us at this point, with all the stresses and strains of a 21st century life...the pressures and the pains...here's the whimsical and wise ee cummings giving us perspective:

you shall above all things be glad and young

   you shall above all things be glad and young
 For if you're young,whatever life you wear

 it will become you;and if you are glad
 whatever's living will yourself become.
 Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:
 i can entirely her only love

 whose any mystery makes every man's
 flesh put space on;and his mind take off time

 that you should ever think,may god forbid
 and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:
 for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave
 called progress,and negation's dead undoom.

 I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
 than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance