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One of my favourite DH Lawrence poems is about these [0]! I’ve always wanted to taste one since I first read it. Perhaps as someone who has tasted them you’ll a
by ycombinete 6y ago
One of my favourite DH Lawrence poems is about these [0]! I’ve always wanted to taste one since I first read it. Perhaps as someone who has tasted them you’ll appreciate it.
I love you, rotten,
Delicious rottenness.
I love to suck you out from your skins
So brown and soft and coming suave,
So morbid, as the Italians say.
The rest of it is in the link.
[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148468/medlars-and-sorb-apples https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148468/medlars-and-so...
- slim 6y ago"morbido" in italian means soft. which is strange, now that I think about it
- ycombinete 6y agoI had a look, in English and Italian they both come from the Latin for “diseased”