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Eleven Red-Haired Men | Poem

 
 

ELEVEN RED-HAIRED MEN


 



 

The Babylonian surfers were to blame:

They carried sophistic indolence, sybaritism,

And the rancorous incipient oud

Into the divine pastorality of the id.
 
 

Only now

Have we learned the

True etiology

Of Sodomiosis and

Gommorrhea.
 

- David W. Mitchell
 

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