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MIRROR, MIRROR

Here am I, poet-lover
Wanting to seem fair to thee
But at home there’s another
Less endearing side of me

I floss my teeth. I scrape my toes
I sometimes even pick my nose
I used to roll it into balls
And feed on it when I was small
In the morning when I rise
I wonder would you recognise
The one with whom you freely mix
On the rug at Number 66?
Hair all flattened down one side
Bits of sleep caught in my eyes
Someday you’ll know I haven’t lied
(Even Dracula had a bride)

Now - if honest truth would have it
Here are other filthy habits:
I cough and spit
Fart and shit
Like all of high and lower worth
On this farting, shitting earth

Where vanity has entered in
I pluck dark hairs from lip and chin
Pick tidbits from the serving-dish
With my fingers when I wish
I blow my nose on wash-bound socks
And drop them in the laundry-box
But only when I really must
And not when socks are odorous
I sucked my thumb till I was thirty
(My thumb was clean then - never dirty)

And there are worse, much worse than these
I don’t withold them just to tease
They’d be too rough for one so simple
Who thinks shame to squeeze a pimple

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from Love Unbidden - love poems for Irene, released June 26, 2020

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Peggy Seeger Oxford, UK

Peggy is one of the most influential folk singers on either side of the Atlantic. She is Pete Seeger’s half-sister and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s daughter; her first life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her. She has made more than 22 solo recordings to date. Please check ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com for other albums featuring Peggy. ... more

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