William Carlos Williams

For the Poem Paterson [3. St. Valentine]

Poem by William Carlos Williams

A woman's breasts
for beauty
A man's delights
for charm

The rod and cups
of duty
to stave us
from harm!

A woman's eyes
a woman's 
thighs and a man's
straight look:

Cities rotted to
pig-sties
will stand up by
that book!