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Author's note: The title of this poem was inspired by the following lines in the poem "Of the Progress of the Soul. The Second Anniversary" by John Donne - "Her pure and elegant blood/ Spoke in her cheeks and so distinctly wrought/ That one might almost say, her body thought". Donne expressed ambivalent attitudes of attraction and revulsion towards women in his poems, at times focusing on the lower parts of the female body which he saw in debased terms e.g. "the dread mouth of a fired gunne" from "The Comparison".
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