Are Flowers ******?

Elizabeth SmartElizabeth Smart

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Flowers aren't choosy
Which bee which bug
Come one come all.Bees and bugs
Aren't choosy either
All entries sweetly natural.Imagine a flower
Closing its throat
Against a bee it thought a bore.Who said object
Should excite act
That that was moral?If only the verb
The act acts,
Why call your sister a *****?Sin and shame!
Abandon the word
Moral. You can see it's immoral.
Elizabeth Smart
About the poet

Elizabeth Smart

1913 - 1986/CanadianElizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, By He…

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