Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.Karl Shapiro
O hideous little bat, the size of snot, With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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And in a comic mood, In mid-air take to bed a wife.
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Oh, it is I, Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie, Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape, Dreamy as puberty - with dirty hair
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