Gedicht

Eunice de Souza

Side by side

Alibi

My love says
for god’s sake
don’t write poems
which heave and pant
and resound to the music
of our thighs
etc.
Just keep at what you are:
a sour old puss in verse
and leave the rest to me.

Eunice de Souza

(India, 1940)

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Gedichten

Gedichten van Eunice de Souza

Alibi

My love says
for god’s sake
don’t write poems
which heave and pant
and resound to the music
of our thighs
etc.
Just keep at what you are:
a sour old puss in verse
and leave the rest to me.

From: Women in Dutch Painting