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LOVE SONNETS OF A BOXER: 2, by                    
First Line: What's that? Yuh wanta see me scrap? Yuh say
Last Line: Might make me look three times as good as now?
Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


WHAT'S that? Yuh wanta see me scrap? Yuh say
Yuh want to watch me while I win me fight?
And I'm your "great big caveman," and you think
I'm a sure winner for to-morrow night?
Babe, you're a wonder—and, I tell yuh true,
I wish the crowd thought just the same as you!

But I'd as soon yuh stayed away. Yuh see,
I want sole rights to see them lovely lamps,
An' I don't want to have yuh waste one look,
Even one look, upon that gang of tramps!
Baby, yuh don't know of the yeggs an' dopes
That hang around a fight-arena's ropes!

Then, too, I'm likely to get hit, an' then
Your lovin' little heart would surely break,
To see me battered, bleedin', lookin' like
Some guy had trimmed me features with a rake!
What's that? You think a wallop on me brow
Might make me look three times as good as now?





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