How the heck do you read this cryptic waste of time by a guy who might have been on drugs?: "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r", by e. e. cummings

For a discussion of "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r", by e. e. cummings, I collected questions and statements from internet posts by people trying to understand the poem. One asked, "How the heck do I read this poem?" Another said it looks like "a cryptic foreign language meant to be deciphered." A third called it "a waste of time", but then added that is nonetheless a great poem. A fourth asked two questions: "How is this a poem? Is this guy on drugs?" So I combined all these comments in a question for my students: "How the heck do you read this cryptic waste of time by a guy who might have been on drugs?" (Andrew Shields, #111words, 12 November 2021)