Little Brown Women

[billy]

after reading some comments i have been pondering how to reply to the poem. now i know why i don't usually do it. i think it has an unsophisticated innocence, what you see is what you get. just a couple of nits. it's not going to make people sit back in awe but i think many will smile from the reading of it.

Little Brown Women 
 
Little brown women, little brown women, why say it twice in one line?
I love little brown women;
the way they cover their mouth
when they laugh in the morning
as though laughing were a sin.
Everyone should sin so.
 
I love little brown women
in the market at noon
hips swaying to the rhythm a bit cliche for the subject matter
of the breeze in their hair
courting the lusty sun.
Everyone should sway so.
 
I love little brown women,
sitting in the shade, in the evening,
with their small hungry babes
who fiercely suck and paw their breast.
Everyone should sit so.
 
I love little brown women,
at night, when the sky is dark
and the torch lights come out;
eyes shining from reflected light.
Everyone should shine so.
 
 
erthona
 
 
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