IF your aunt had big feet she'd have big shoes too

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 14 18:04:39 CDT 2002



Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> If by that you mean that you understand I'm just
> concerned with your own comfort (I'm not recommending
> you do anything particularly unpleasant, after all --
> judging from your past posts, it seems you think
> smoking pot is a good thing, and I think just about
> everybody likes to masturbate, whether they'll admit
> it or not).....


If they can, they will 
In the heat, in the chill
near death or near hell, 
in a giant Pumpkin shell,
On the Line heading West
On the line fast asleep,
they will choke the chicken
but never sow  what they reap. 

If they have not lost both arms in the army
both legs in the navy
both balls on The Tour de France
 
If they have not been surfing with sharks in Australia
Reported the loss of lives, limbs, other paraphernalia
Not to mention genitalia

If they haven't lost T.S. Eliot's Hope
Dylan's Desire
Left their feelings and scrotums bloody and butchered out on No Man's
Land's wire

If they have not been to sea and faced the swift cutlass
Known to render those hung like bulldozers nutless

If they have not been hit by an Atomic blast
If their entire body is not in a cast
If their reproductive organs are not now corroded
If their asshole was not detached when Little Boy exploded

If the cold winds of public charity have not left them to freeze
If the priests have not forced them down on their knees
If they can still get it up, get it hard, get it wet, 
they will if they can, 
if they can they will, 
by hook or by crook
by hoist  or by pill, 
by george or by martha
by mary, joseph, jesus, and god the father, 
they will

Or they will find a substitute

Like nymphomaniacal Alice
you used a dynamite stick for a phallus
they found her Vagina
In North Carolina
And her ass in Buckingham Palace.



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