Street Scene Through Window
 A couple walks together bumping hips And touching hands. They have been At it face to face, side to side...
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Effi Briest (1895)
This passage is from Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest. The novel is a Prussian novel of adultery. It was...
The Chef Rose Through The Dining Room Like Dough
The chef rose through the dining room like dough, handing out blinis and gold caviar, kissing and bellowing...
Barzakh
Barzakh is a term I picked up from Henry Corbin, in his writing about Iranian mysticism. Barzakh is the...
My Eyes Are Like Telescopes
This line by Tom Verlaine has been running through my head all morning. Here’s the rest of the line:...
Sauce for the Gander
Seems to me the filthy old 2nd Earl of Rochester deserves to have a female companion. It is obviously a...
Smut
Here’s a smutty tidbit from the Second Earl of Rochester: So a proud bitch does lead about  Of humble...
3 poems
Birthday Knots of fire tighten on my brow a birthday ice in the pants free-for-all of Tulips Peonies Iris...
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