perhaps e. e. cummings was not

perhaps e. e. cummings was not
being a hubristic ass when he decided to divest the clumsy capital
what purpose do those leviathans of the written word serve, anyway?
emphasizers, organizers, establishers of
written rhythm?
who dogmatized this tomfoolery?
cummings saw the light, he was a
visionary

naught deserves capitalization
save maybe that transgender thought to
live upstairs whose title starts
with the great pictogram that begins ginsberg
and gynecologist
but he keeps to
himself
i've never met him
have you?

you've got to wonder where the germans get off
with their der Ball, die Milsch, and das Gesamtkunstwerk
colossal arrogance
no wonder they thought they could conquer the planet
o wait
or was that the mongols,
or the romans, or the french, or my own possee (so-called americans)
arrogance assails us

the answer is patently in the capital letter
sure, inequality is ineluctable
but fabricated textual hierarchy evinces our inborn competition
our special power-trip
and e. e. cummings is gone (so is g. khan, and napole-on, though the g. bushes, for now, live on)
testament to
the oscillation,
his inane poetry
succeeds
him

inanity cannot answer questions
but it is better than illusion
which in turn bests delusion
all would be trumped by reason
if we could tell
the
difference
between
'em