The Balloon Man

This comes to brighten my life; it makes me smile just to read it again and recall reading it to a bright eyed class of grade school children who seemed to find it as whimsical as I did. Thanks ee cummings for writing it and to A for finding it for me. Ah, life is fine.

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little lame baloonman


whistles far and wee


and eddyandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring


when the world is puddle-wonderful


the queer
old baloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing


from hop-scotch and jump-rope and


it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed


baloonMan whistles
far
and
wee