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Annoyance and Response Print E-mail
Poetry Cycles - Doing Sappho
Lisa Jain Thompson   
Tuesday, 05 December 2006 11:03
Annoyance
 
by Sappho
600 B.C.E.

 

Never before,
O Irana,
have I found you
more repulsive
than today.

 
 
 
 
 
Response
 
 
by Lisa Jain Thompson
Copyright C. 1999 C.E.
 
 
I have better uses
For your tongue,
Sweet Sappho,
Than to pierce me so.

Come whisper me
With your wit
And leave the lashings
to others.
 
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