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<blockquote data-quote="mjp" data-source="post: 6855" data-attributes="member: 2">Same poem, with changes. I'd scan it out of 8 story window, but that book (the printing I have anyway) is perfect bound, and thin, so it doesn't lay flat.8 story window version:the latest hardware dangling upon my pillow catches
window lamplight through the mist of alcohol.

I was the whelp of a prude who whipped me when
the wind shook blades of grass the eye could see
move and
you were a
convent's girl watching the nuns shake loose
the Las Cruces sand from God's robes

you are
yesterday's bouquet so sadly
raided. I kiss your poor
breasts as my hands reach for love
this cheap Hollywood apartment smelling of
bread and gas and miseryThe rest is the same in both versions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mjp, post: 6855, member: 2"] Same poem, with changes. I'd scan it out of [I]8 story window[/I], but that book (the printing I have anyway) is perfect bound, and thin, so it doesn't lay flat. [I]8 story window[/I] version: [INDENT]the latest hardware dangling upon my pillow catches window lamplight through the mist of alcohol. I was the whelp of a prude who whipped me when the wind shook blades of grass the eye could see move and you were a convent's girl watching the nuns shake loose the Las Cruces sand from God's robes you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided. I kiss your poor breasts as my hands reach for love this cheap Hollywood apartment smelling of bread and gas and misery[/INDENT] The rest is the same in both versions. [/QUOTE]

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