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This next poem is kind of
half parody or something.

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I don't know.

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It's meant to be funny.

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Often when I mean to
write a funny poem,

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it doesn't come out too funny.

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This is a parody--

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I call this "An Amorous Debate."

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And the amorous debate was
a very popular convention

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of Renaissance poetry.

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And what happened in it
was it was a dialogue

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between a boy and a girl.

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And they would always
be sitting on a bank

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and there would be birds singing
and leaves and blossoms coming

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out and all that.

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And the boy would be
trying to seduce the girl.

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And sometimes, these
are quite long poems.

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The longest, I mean, the
best known is "Don's Ecstasy"

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but there were
quite a few others.

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There's one by Sir Philip Sidney
"In a grove most rich of shade"

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and--

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oh, about six or seven others
that one could identify.

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And apparently this
was a convention.

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So I wrote this poem
called "An Amorous Debate"

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and the two characters in it are
called Leather Kid and Fleshly.

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I should say, before I
start, that at the very end,

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I make reference to two
French rivers, the Saone

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and the Rhone,
which join together

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and become one river at Lyon.

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I think they join
and they then become

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called the Rhone, which is a
bit unfair to the other river.

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"An Amorous Debate."

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Birds whistled, all
nature was doing something

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while Leather Kid and Fleshly
lay on a bank and gleaming

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disclosed like this.

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"You are so strong," she
said, "such a firm defense

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of hide against
the ripple of skin,

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it excites me, all those
reserves suggested,

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though I do hope that
isn't a prosthetic device

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under your glove, is it?"

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"Let's fuck," he said.

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She snuggled close,
zipping him open,

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unbuckling away, till he lay
before her a very Mars unhorsed

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but not doing much of
anything without his horse.

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"Strange," she said, "you are
still encased in your defense.

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You have a hard
cock but there is

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something like the
obduracy of leather

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still in your countenance
and your skin.

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It is like a hide under hide."

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Then she laid the fierce
pale river of her body

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against his, squashing
her lily breasts

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against his hard male
nipples, inserting

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her thighs between his
till he fired a bit

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and embracing her with
some feeling moved his hand

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to suck up the nearest
flesh to his mouth

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which turned out
to be his own arm.

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Then a tremor passed through his
body, the sheen fell from him,

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he became wholly sensitive as
if his body had rolled back

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its own foreskin.

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He ran with sweat.

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And then melted one
into the other forthwith

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like the way the Saone
joins the Rhone at Lyon.

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A bit different.

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