THE BEAUTY LOVER
by: Claire Zu Bard
- HE round, pink, laughing girl
bathes,
- And the thin, grey, silent girl watches.
- ....And afterwards,
- When the bather dries herself
- And puts powder under her arms,
- And lies down, like a sleepy flower,--
- The grey girl catches her around the hips, violently,
- And kisses her:
- Surprised, the pink girl draws away;
- And the grey girl--
- (Poor little restless lover of beauty)
- Apologizes
- And is ashamed.
"The Beauty Lover" is
reprinted from Poetica Erotica. Ed. T.R. Smith. New York:
Crown Publishers, 1921. |
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