Space being (don't forget to remember) Curved
(and that reminds me who said o yes Frost
Something there is which isn't fond of walls)

an electromagnetic (now Ive lost
the) Einstein expanded Newton's law preserved
conTinuum (but we read that beFore)

of Course life being just a Reflex you
know since Everything is Relative or

to sum it All Up god being Dead (not to

mention inTerred
LONG LIVE that Upwardlooking
Serene Illustrious and Beatific
Lord of Creation, MAN:
at a least crooking
of Whose compassionate digit, earth's most terrific

quadruped swoons into billiardBalls!

-ee cummings


"a poem that he himself called a parody of the times in The Explicator 9.5."

Dear Sir--
please let your readers know that the author of "Space being(don't forget to remember)Curved" considers it a parody-portrait of one scienceworshipping supersubmoron in the very act of reading(with difficulties)aloud,to another sw ssm,some wouldbe explication of A.Stone&Co's unpoem
--thank you


E. E. Cummings
December 11 1950