"Faeces-leary." I love it.

There are a number of poems I know that are bit bawdy. I think I read one by Auden once about "taking a dump" or something like that. (It was pretty good, I thought, but it just didn't stick with me.)

One of my favorites is not about feces, but is still a bawdy bit.
http://users.crocker.com/~lwm/theboys.html

Don't recall if I've posted that pointer before, but it's pretty good.

Another ribald one - and I don't remember where I read this or who wrote it - is

"A woman is a book, and often found,
to prove far better in the sheets than bound.
No wonder, then, some students take delight,
above all things to study in the night."

There's a neat one by cummings I read years ago that starts out
"may I feel said he
I'll squeal said she
just once said he
its fun said she"

and so on.

The "have you seen yourself retreating" line reminds me of another one whose author I don't recall.

"Husbands would not go a-whoring,
they'd stay with the wives they adore,
if wives were but half as alluring,
after the act as before."



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