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Body Remember
Body, remember not only how much you were loved not only the beds you lay on. but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices- only some chance obstacle frustrated them. Now that it's all finally in the past, it seems almost as if you gave yourself to those desires too-how they glowed, remember, in eyes that looked at you, remember, body, how they trembled for you in those voices. According to the formulas of ancient Grecosyrian magi "What distillate can be discovered from herbs of a witching brew," said an aesthete, "what distillate prepared according to the formulas of ancient Grecosyrian magi which for a day (if no longer its potency can last), or even for a short time, can bring my twenty three years to me again; can bring my friend of twenty two to me again -- his beauty, his love. "What distillate prepared according to the formulas of ancient Grecosyrian magi which, in bringing back these things, can also bring back our little room." Sensual Pleasures My life's joy and incense: recollection of those hours when I found and captured pleasure as I wanted it. My life's joy and incense: that I refused all indulgence in routine love affairs. Poèmes de : Constantin P. CAVAFIS
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