Today, recovering from influenza I begin, having nothing worse to do This autobiography that ends a Half of my life I'm glad I'm through. O Love, what a bloody hullaballoo I look back at, shaken and sober When that intemperate life I view From this intemperate October
To nineteen hundred and forty-seven I pay the deepest of respects, For during this year I was given Some insight into the other sex. I was a victim, till forty-six Of the rosy bed with bitches in it; But now, in spite of all pretexts I never sleep a single minute.
O fellow sailor on the tossing sea, O fleeting virgin in the night O privates, general in lechery, Shun, shun the bedroom like a blight: Evade, O amorous acolyte, That pillow where your heart you bury- For if the thing was stood upright It would become a cemetary.
I start with this apostrophe To all apostles of true love: With your devotion visit me, Give me the glory of the dove That dies of dereliction. Give True love to me, true love to me, And in two shakes I will prove It's false to you and false to me.
Bright spawner on your sandbank dwell Coldblooded as a plumber's pipe- The procreatory ocean swell Warming, till they're over ripe, The cockles of your cold heart, will Teach us true love can instil Temperature into any type.
Does not the oyster in its bed Open a yearning yoni when The full moon passes over head Feeling for pearls? O nothing, then, Too low a form of life is, when Love, abandoning the cloister, Can animate the bedded oyster, The spawning tiddler, and men.
Thus all of us, the pig and prince, The priest and the psychiatrist, Owe everything to true love, since How the devil could we exist If our parents had never kissed? All biographies, therefore, -No matter what else they envince- Open, like prisons, with adore.
Remember, when you love another, Who demonstrably is a bitch, Even Venus had a mother Whose love, like a silent aitch, Incepted your erotic itch. Love, love has the longest history, For we can tell an ape his father Begot him on a mystery.
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