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JAM MADE OF LOVERBERRY from recipes of metamtextosis by Serge Segay (translated by Alex Cigale)

July 1, 2011 Contributed By: Alex Cigale, Serge Segay

carefully comb over the loverberry
sew as to seminally manhandle bare-breast.
ectomize the pit-joints and the unripe bare-breasts
prepare the scratch-pot
and carefully immerse in it the loverberries
lightly stir the com-pot
and let it loverrise.
remove the lidlove
and squeezelove to loveliness
per 1 loverton of loverberries
1 lovegram of sugarlaugh,

½ glasstick bitchbrew.

1974

 

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Filed Under: Poetry, Translation Posted On: July 1, 2011

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