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Earl Sollenberger 108 Reply to “Beware Lest People Think—” I thank you for your warning, dear, but I Can’t cater to what people think or say In this one case! Like gentle you I try From fear, perhaps, to let them have their way In customs, methods, points of view, and laws— In everything I guess; except this case! And it is vain obeisance, vain because In spite of all I do to hold a place Of “self-respect” the damners know me well, And I am damned for this if not for that Till there is little left to think or tell. So in my verse I put my thoughts in flat Non-paying words; if sex, then SEX: it’s “art.” Be damned or not I’ll pen what’s in my heart. ...

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