Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
Sex
1Amœbas at the start
2 Were not complex;
3They tore themselves apart
4 And started Sex.
5And Sex has ruled the earth
6 From then till this,
7Producing woe and mirth
8 And pain and bliss.
9Through Sex the seedling wakes
10 To cleave the ground;
11'Tis really Sex that makes
12 The world go 'round.
13It sublimates the mind
14 With noble themes,
15Or sends it unrefined,
16 Suggestive dreams.
17'Tis Sex that rules the lives
18 Of clods and kings;
19It gives us books and wives
20 And other things --
21Ambition, love, and strife
22 And all the ills
23And ecstasies of life --
24 And Freuds and Brills.
Notes
24] Brills: A.A. Brills, who translated Sigmund Freud's writings on sex into English.
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Original text:
Publication date note: Guiterman, Arthur, The Light Guitar (New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923): 15-16.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition:
Recent editing: 1:2004/6/21
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