<koertge's "making love to roget's wife">
2003-05-01.12:23 a.m.


Making Love to Roget's Wife
Ronald Koertge


We'd meet in a different cheap room.
Every time I had to swear I worked
with horses and used books to kill flies.

But nothing happened until
we heard Peter from the courtyard
below: "Strumpet, demirep, courtesan,
jade, wench!..."

Then she closed and barred
the whitewashed shutters
and stepped out of her only dress.



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