This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.
Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:
You have a great big nose and fat legs.
She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and back,
abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.
She went to and fro apologizing.
Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.
She was advised to play coy,
exhorted to come on hearty,
exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.
Her good nature wore out
like a fan belt.
So she cut off her nose and her legs
and offered them up.
In the casket displayed on satin she lay
with the undertaker’s cosmetics painted on,
a turned-up putty nose,
dressed in a pink and white nightie.
Doesn’t she look pretty? everyone said.
Consummation at last.
To every woman a happy ending.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Robert Burns: Thomson’s Edward and Eleanora.:
- Николай Некрасов – Влас
- Стефан Малларме – Ее ногтей ожив, что ожил из пароса
- Владимир Высоцкий – Жан, Жак, Гийом, Густав нормальные французы
- My rains by Vinko Kalinic
- In the Old Age of the Soul poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Unstitching by Satish Verma
- Khristna And His Flute
- the_nomad039s_vision_ode_to_a_skylark_dressed_in_black.html
- Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing by William Shakespeare
- Disabled by Wilfred Owen
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Гроза
- Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin
- The Bugler’s First Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
