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Old 10-08-2005, 05:16 AM
whiskeytown whiskeytown is offline
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Default Re: Favourite lines of poetry/verse?

there's a great Derek Walcott poem - called Bleecker St. -1962, I think.

short poem - about a couple languishing away on the rooftop in NYC as summer comes to an end - and I don't have it memorized verbatim, I remember the last line...

"I would laugh and dry your damp flesh if you came."

the whole image of the poem, short as it is, is great -

RB
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