Maggie and Milly and Molly and May

an E. E Cummings poem set to music by me, with original drawings.

I played my plastic ukulele and sang. recorded and drawn in July 2022.

here is the poem:

Went down to the beach (to play one day)

And Maggie discovered a shell that sang

So sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,

And Milly befriended a stranded star

Whose rays five languid fingers were;

And Molly was chased by a horrible thing

Which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:

And May came home with a smooth round stone

As small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

It's always ourselves we find in the sea.

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