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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