We also cut off steel, ore and scrap steel too didn’t we?
plato told him:
he couldn’t believe it
(jesus told him;
he wouldn’t believe it)
lao tsze certainly told him,
and general (yes mam) sherman ;
and even (believe it or not)
you told him:
i told him;
we told him
(he didn’t believe it,no sir)
it took a nipponized bit of
the old sixth avenue el;
in the top of his head: to tell him
— e. e. cummings