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== poems ==


* <big>Symptom Recital</big>

I do not like my state of mind; <br />
I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.<br />
I hate my legs, I hate my hands, <br />
I do not yearn for lovelier lands. <br />
I dread the dawn's recurrent light; <br /> 
I hate to go to bed at night. <br />
I snoot at simple, earnest folk. <br />
I cannot take the gentlest joke. <br />
I find no peace in paint or type. <br />
My world is but a lot of tripe. <br />
I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted. <br />
For what I think, I'd be arrested. <br />
I am not sick, I am not well. <br />
My quondam dreams are shot to hell. <br />
My soul is crushed, my spirit sore; <br />
I do not like me any more. <br />
I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse. <br />
I ponder on the narrow house. <br />
I shudder at the thought of men.... <br />
I'm due to fall in love again.  <br />


 
 
* <big>Salome's Dancing-Lesson</big>
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She that begs a little boon <br />
(Heel and toe! Heel and toe!) <br />
Little gets- and nothing, soon. <br />
(No, no, no! No, no, no!) <br />
She that calls for costly things <br />
Priceless finds her offerings- <br />
What's impossible to kings? <br />
(Heel and toe! Heel and toe!) <br />
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Kings are shaped as other men. <br />
(Step and turn! Step and turn!) <br />
Ask what none may ask again. <br />
(Will you learn? Will you learn?) <br />
Lovers whine, and kisses pall, <br />
Jewels tarnish, kingdoms fall- <br />
Death's the rarest prize of all! <br />
(Step and turn! Step and turn!) <br />
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Veils are woven to be dropped. <br />
(One, two, three! One, two, three!) <br />
Aging eyes are slowest stopped. <br />
(Quietly! Quietly!) <br />
She whose body's young and cool <br />
Has no need of dancing-school- <br />
Scratch a king and find a fool! <br />
(One, two, three! One, two, three!) <br />
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--[[მომხმარებელი:Saligiorgadze|Saligiorgadze]] <br />
10:21, 15 სექტემბერი 2012 (UTC)
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