This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.
Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:
You have a great big nose and fat legs.
She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and back,
abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.
She went to and fro apologizing.
Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.
She was advised to play coy,
exhorted to come on hearty,
exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.
Her good nature wore out
like a fan belt.
So she cut off her nose and her legs
and offered them up.
In the casket displayed on satin she lay
with the undertaker’s cosmetics painted on,
a turned-up putty nose,
dressed in a pink and white nightie.
Doesn’t she look pretty? everyone said.
Consummation at last.
To every woman a happy ending.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – День-деньской я с тобой, за тобой
- Владимир Корнилов – Останкинская башня
- My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 7. Dark house, by which once more I s poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Как тамада я выступаю в роли теоретика
- Sleep by Russell Edson
- Иван Бунин – Надпись на могильной плите
- With Antecedents. by Walt Whitman
- On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
- One Great Christmas Verse, Three Incomparable Gifts
- The Parting
- Song—A Man’s a Man for a’ that by Robert Burns
- TRANSPARENCY by Satish Verma
- how far are you? by Raj Arumugam
- On The Queen’s Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789 by William Cowper
Some external links:
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).
