Reading Pornography in Old Age
Unbridled licentiousness with no holds barred,
Immediate and mutual lust,
In the heat, upon demand, aroused
And satisfied again, lechery unlimited
Unbridled licentiousness with no holds barred,
Immediate and mutual lust,
In the heat, upon demand, aroused
And satisfied again, lechery unlimited
After the wailing had already begun along the walls, their ruin certain, the Trojans fidgeted with bits of wood in the three-ply doors, itsy-bitsy pieces of wood, fussing with them
And began to get their nerve back and feel hopeful
We must be slow and delicate; return the policeman's stare with some esteem, remember this is not a shadow play of doves and geese but this is now the time to write it down, record the words— I mean we should have left some pride of youth and not ...
As Hermes once took to his feathers light,
When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,
So on a Delphic reed, my idle
So played, so charmed, so conquered, so
Roses, rooted warm in earth, Bud in rhyme, another age;
Lilies know a ghostly birth Strewn along a patterned page;
Golden lad and chimbley sweep Die; and so their song shall keep
Wind that in Arcadia starts In and out a couplet play...
Boswell by my bed,
Tolstoy on my table;
Thought the world has bled For four and a half years,
And wives' and mothers' tears Collected would be able To water a little field Untouched by anger and blood,