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I try and try and try, alas, ‘tis naught -
My heart was no more fashioned to find love
Than these my hands to craft a porcelain duck!
When first I came to look upon a man
With eyes not chaste, a maid of sixteen years,
I shocked myself with thoughts of wild cavorting,
Of golden moments savoured one on one,
Positions hard to achieve, frantic gruntings,
Yelps; all was in my mind sublime; but now
I find no proof but of what appalls me –
O shameful truth, most unbearable loss,
That man’s embrace should be such total dross



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The following comments are for "Lady Phoebe's Lament"
by lippynelson

Out for a (porcelain) duck
First, if this was written in all seriousness, I apologise. I read it as broad parody of that sub-Shakespearian style of courtly verse... and laughed out loud. Nice work. I would counsel finding a different man... or failing that, giving up on the porcelain ducks and making something much simpler and more phallic with the porcelain instead :)

( Posted by: mobiussoul [Member] On: October 2, 2008 )

duck
thanks mobiussoul yes i hoped it would raise a smile

( Posted by: lippynelson [Member] On: January 14, 2009 )

Duck ducks!
Oh how self-deluded we males be, that fair maids should live in such dreamy anticipatory expectation only to be dashed disappointed upon love's shoal for the reality of male ineptness and brevity. Sigh! I offer my condolences and ask woman all to forgive us and teach us for we all are bumbling knaves.

( Posted by: jonpenny [Member] On: January 14, 2009 )

duck
forgive me, it sounds like the self delusion is all on the part of the demoiselles

( Posted by: lippynelson [Member] On: January 20, 2009 )





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