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{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">{{BASEPAGENAME}}/</span>{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} | {{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">{{BASEPAGENAME}}/</span>{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} | ||
{{MR13}} | {{MR13}} | ||
{{byline|last=Cetrano|first=Sal | {{byline|last=Cetrano|first=Sal|url=http://prmlr.us/mr13cet3}} | ||
{{center|—“Political correctness is the most cowardly form<br /> | {{center|—“Political correctness is the most cowardly form<br /> | ||
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Parties, he aches wistfully, | Parties, he aches wistfully, | ||
once offered shelter. | once offered shelter. | ||
The Lady, for all her rocks | |||
and ten-buck words | |||
just a dyke in taffeta to Berkowitz, | |||
chafes on: equal something | |||
for somebody, level tracks, | |||
affirmative assholes . . . | |||
He is dim on the details. | |||
Life is complicated enough, | |||
he is thinking. Can he even | |||
find his way to the ''john''? | |||
Men now used ju-jitsu— | |||
kiss her ass just right, and | |||
she’ll swear she’s kicking yours. | |||
Refocusing the mute blonde | |||
over by the dip, it is all | |||
the same to him—the hollow | |||
that he may have had her before, | |||
or the notion that she’s had ''him''. | |||
</poem> </div> | </poem> </div> | ||