The woman in the ordinary pudgy downcast girl
is crouching with eyes and muscles clenched.
Round and pebble smooth she effaces herself
under ripples of conversation and debate.
The woman in the block of ivory soap
has massive thighs that neigh,
great breasts that blare and strong arms that trumpet.
The woman of the golden fleece
laughs uproariously from the belly
inside the girl who imitates
a Christmas card virgin with glued hands,
who fishes for herself in other’s eyes,
who stoops and creeps to make herself smaller.
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
compounded of acid and sweet like a pineapple,
like a handgrenade set to explode,
like goldenrod ready to bloom.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- A Snowy Night by William Barnes
- Blessings On Children by William Gilmore Simms
- Eclogue:–Come And Zee Us In The Zummer by William Barnes
- Владимир Луговской – Капитанский штиль
- Death In The Lounge Bar by Vernon Scannell
- The Death Of Grant poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Skies by William Cullen Bryant
- William Strode – William Strode
- On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson by Phillis Wheatley
- Death by Thomas Hood
- Валерий Брюсов – Годы в былом
- I Deserve It by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- Robert Burns: The Calf: To the Rev. James Steven, on his text, Malachi, ch. iv. vers. 2. “And ye shall go forth, and grow up, as Calves of the stall.”
- Михаил Кузмин – Трое (Нас было трое)
- The Quesion by Rudyard Kipling
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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).
