Darkness it was so near to me, i ask of shadow won’t you have a drink? (the eternal perpetual question)
Inside snugandevil. i was sitting in mcsorley’s It, did not answer. outside. (it was New York and beautifully, snowing….
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From “I Was Sitting in McSorley’s” by E.E. Cummings
“McSorleys Stove” photo by Charles R. Hale