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If it had been Pound and not Poe
If he had been wearing swim trunks not pyjamas
If it had been booze and not butter
If it had been breakfast not dinner
And Venice not Nantucket

It would have been Pound’s pale thighs in the sunlight, thigh hairs curled
like little snails (poils or escargots)

Charlene coughed.