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[gyanesha]

Poem 17 ("I perceived the outline of your breasts ...") from "The Energy of Slaves"
I perceived the outline of your breasts
through your Halloween costume
I knew you were falling in love with me
because no other man could perceive
the advance of your bosom into his imagination
It was a rupture of your unusual modesty
for me and me alone
through which you impressed upon my shapeless hunger
the incomparable and final outline of your breasts
like two deep fossil shells
which remained all night long and probably forever

-- Leonard Cohen