Volume LIV Number 7-8
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(Italian: “to soak the biscuit”, i.e. to have sex)
Who could resist
that Butternut Snap lap
crumbly like an
Anzac in the sack
Scotch Finger steady
on the Tiny Teddy
Swallow’s Bush Biscuit
Milk Arrowroot and
Adora Cream lips breathlessly
mumblin’ the
Honey Jumble?

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The Quadrant Book of Poetry: 2001 - 2010
edited by Les Murray
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