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AFTER "TWO WOMEN WITH MANGOES"

After
"Two Women with Mangoes"

We know them, have seen them clogging
neighborhood streets, business ghettoes
of grown men deep in thought. Oh yes.
We know women whose surplus breasts bob
along under sad smiles of unnoticed good
looks, forgotten attributes advertisers
and bankers and bakers ignore -- perfect
skin, smooth teeth, tight firm muscles
on grand architectures of bone. We have
seen them or those parts moving along
under our steady gaze, beside our dreams
of youth regained. Unencumbered women,
mango and melon mongers, in huge cities
of anonymous men in gray suits and ties
black as hangmen's rope around necks.
Anonymous men gape slackjawed into an
unknown, the unknowable, the big breasts
of women who have other things in mind.

On Polynesian isles these women
are mothers and daughters.

Two Women with Mangoes
Paul Gauguin
see Gallery of Inspiration - Impressionism
After "Two Women with Mangoes"
John Horváth Jr.
4/7/99

John Horváth Jr. edits PoetryRepairShop
also see his bibliography.

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AFTER "TWO WOMEN WITH MANGOES"
	After "Two Women with Mangoes" We know them, have seen them clogging neighborhood streets, business ghettoes of grown men deep in thought. Oh yes. We know women whose surplus breasts bob along under sad smiles of unnoticed good looks, forgotten attributes advertisers and bankers and bakers ignore -- perfect skin, smooth teeth, tight firm muscles on grand architectures of bone. We have seen them or those parts moving along under our steady gaze, beside our dreams of youth regained. Unencumbered women, mango and melon mongers, in huge cities of anonymous men in gray suits and ties black as hangmen's rope around necks. Anonymous men gape slackjawed into an unknown, the unknowable, the big breasts of women who have other things in mind. On Polynesian isles these women are mothers and daughters.
Two Women with Mangoes Paul Gauguin see Gallery of Inspiration - Impressionism	After "Two Women with Mangoes" John Horváth Jr. 4/7/99
	John Horváth Jr. edits PoetryRepairShop also see his bibliography.