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As the Starved Maelstrom
laps the Navies
As the Vulture teazed
Forces the Broods in
lonely Valleys
As the Tiger eased
By but a Crumb of
Blood, fasts Scarlet
Till he meet a Man
Dainty adorned with
Veins and Tissues
And partakes - his Tongue
Cooled by the Morsel
for a moment
Grows a fiercer thing
Till he esteem his Dates
and Cocoa
A Nutrition mean
I, of a finer Famine
Deem my Supper dry
For but a Berry of
Domingo
And a Torrid Eye -
Ribbons of the Year -
Multitude Brocade -
Worn to Nature's
Party once
Then, as flung aside
As a faded Bead
Or a Wrinkled Pearl -
Who shall charge
the Vanity
Of the Maker's Girl?
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