"kitty". sixteen, 5' 1", white, prostitute. | |
ducking always the touch of must and shall, | |
whose slippery body is Death's littlest pal, | |
skilled in quick softness. Unspontaneous. cute. | |
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the signal perfume of whose unrepute |
focusses in the sweet slow animal | |
bottomless eyes importantly banal, | |
Kitty. a whore. Sixteen | |
you corking brute | |
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amused from time to time by clever drolls |
fearsomely who do keep their sunday flower. | |
The babybreasted broad "kitty" twice eight | |
—beer nothing, the lady'll have a whiskey-sour— | |
whose least amazing smile is the most great | |
common divisor of unequal souls. |
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