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and then you said: isn't she beautiful? and i said: what? and you said: who is she? could you introduce me? and i drank most of my beer before telling you that beautiful isn't what defines her - she is also intelligent and talented but you missed most of what I said because women are most loveable when they aren't already talking - acrostic line from Plato, Book III, Republic trans. by G.M.A. Grube (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1992) 79. |
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relationships and this poem begin with an offer of Pez for we are all Pez dispensers and the moment you think otherwise then and only then do you have a problem for we are all Pez dispensers since we open wide to strangers offer love for the taking please please pick me pick ME because i am special and i offer all the flavours you could possibly crave we plead silently and even though we are only plastic we can offer love in pill form so convenient easy to take with tips of fingers from our gaping mouths heads pressed back by a giant thumb whose thumb well that is problematic it's our own thumb Freud would say the thumb of our superego because it is moral to offer love it is moral it is right thing to do like taking Pez it is the right thing to do even if it is artificial |
