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WILD PLUM by ADUL TIMA [PSEUD.]

First Line: THEY ARE UNHOLY WHO ARE BORN
Last Line: WHO LOVE BETTER THAN THE EARTH / WILD PLUM AT NIGHT
Subject(s): PROMISCUITY;

They are unholy who are born
To love wild plum at night,
Who once have passed it on a road
Glimmering and white.

It is as though darkness had
Speech of silver words,
Or as though a cloud of stars
Perched like ghostly birds.

They are unpitied from their birth
And homeless in men's sight,
Who love better than the earth
Wild plum at night.



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