cigarettes,whiskey and wild,wild women

[clyde]

This is to be a fun thread,thus the title.It's off the poyem below.Boy what a mistake that was.

All the same...it does connote an orgiastic flavor.That's always fun.Oh we're all playing on the fringes of accepted societal behavior anyways...so no big deal.

This may work, and it may not.


Try to be happy and free... and as lewd as can be.













Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women


by Anne Sexton



Perhaps I was born kneeling,
born coughing on the long winter,
born expecting the kiss of mercy,
born with a passion for quickness
and yet, as things progressed,
I learned early about the stockade
or taken out, the fume of the enema.
By two or three I learned not to kneel,
not to expect, to plant my fires underground
where none but the dolls, perfect and awful,
could be whispered to or laid down to die.

Now that I have written many words,
and let out so many loves, for so many,
and been altogether what I always was—
a woman of excess, of zeal and greed,
I find the effort useless.
Do I not look in the mirror,
these days,
and see a drunken rat avert her eyes?
Do I not feel the hunger so acutely
that I would rather die than look
into its face?
I kneel once more,
in case mercy should come
in the nick of time.