“I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,
I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.
This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?
It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.”

—  Edith Sitwell

"One–Way Song", p. 118
Taken Care Of (1965)

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