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Romance Language
- Minnesota Review
- Duke University Press
- Number 48-49, Spring-Fall 1997 (New Series)
- p. 63
- Article
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63 Laura Cini Romance Language Praise be fuck. That a word reserves love for another category, a word to throw in lieu of knives, AUeluia! In the most noble of mouths is put a cunt for a rose and a rose for a cunt. Amen. So the movie star gets a dozen cunts deUvered to her dressing room— how lovely they do smell— while a lady comes home late from washing pots at Hojo's and a rose blooms under her lover's hand. No law against seUing roses. Fresh cut and day old. And Uttle girls wear dresses printed all over with cunts. How fuck starts on our Ups and socks itself smack! Uke a gavel on the palate. Switch cock for cock. It's the year of the cock. Early with the sun, the cock is somewhere rising. ...