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Here is another sex poem of
a different kind, a sad kind,

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I guess.

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I met in Oshkosh of all places
a ventriloquist, a young girl

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from a very rich family.

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And she considered that she
was a failure of the family.

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The father had the big Cadillac
that I mentioned in the poem,

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and the brother was
a tremendous student.

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And she had flunked
rhetoric three times.

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And she tried to compensate
by talking to this dummy who

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became her alter ego.

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She tried to convince us that,
actually became so simpatico

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with the dummy that the dummy
actually talked through her,

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talked.

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He assumed her completely so
that he became kind of alive.

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I fabricated it at
the ending to show

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that he becomes not only the
alter ego but also her lover

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that she takes to bed with her.

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Became symbolically that
much of an identity with her.

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She couldn't trust anyone else.

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So it just becomes a
sexual love object.

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She never grew beyond
the doll stage.

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And here she has a
perfect mate, the doll.

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She can tell the doll
anything she wants it to.

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And it'll answer her
anything that she wants.

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"The Ventriloquist".

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"She claims before
the 20 executives

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laughing at the
dummy banter that he

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had assumed her completely.

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The wooden youngster
mimics her echoes.

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She spies her boy pull
off a performance,

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his sacred hour
come round at last.

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A touch of obscene red
hair, the Buster Brown shoe

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with the hole.

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She remembers her
part, the confession.

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Brother is Dean's list at MIT.

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And father steers a
great dark Cadillac.

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She is a skeleton
in the family tree.

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All night she cries
between perfumed sheets,

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cuddling the dummy to
her heaving thighs.

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Sexless and stiff,
he lies speechless,

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unviolated, still
her only lover."