Advice to a Woman
The sloping lines of your shoulders
Speak of Chinese pagodas.
They clash with your western face
Where child and courtesan
Clasp each other in a feigned embrace.
Life to you is an unfair, liquid mirror.
You stand with delicate, perpetual amazement,
Vainly seeking your reflection.
Seek it within the looking-glass
Of your spirit forever held out,
Forever ignored by your bargaining, undulating
Flesh, strange, divided Eurasian woman.
Speak of Chinese pagodas.
They clash with your western face
Where child and courtesan
Clasp each other in a feigned embrace.
Life to you is an unfair, liquid mirror.
You stand with delicate, perpetual amazement,
Vainly seeking your reflection.
Seek it within the looking-glass
Of your spirit forever held out,
Forever ignored by your bargaining, undulating
Flesh, strange, divided Eurasian woman.
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