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Discovery

by Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan

The petals of the vagina unfold
like Christofer Columbus
taking off his shoes.

Is there anything more beautiful
than the bow of a ship
touching a new world?




Quotes of the Day

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
• Robert Burton


Poems of the Day
  • Dorothy Parker
    The Leal
    by Dorothy Parker
    The friends I made have slipped and strayed, And who's the one that cares? A trifling lot and best forgot- And that's my tale, and theirs. Then if my friendships break and bend,