<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447410" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Machinist Talking</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit at my machine,<br>Hour long beside me Vera aged nineteen,<br>Babbles her sweet and innocent tale of sex.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her boy, she hopes, will prove<br>Unlike his father in the act of love,<br>Twelve children are too many for her taste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She looks sidelong, blue-eyed<br>And tells a girlish story of a bride<br>With the sweet licence of Arabian queens.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her child, she says, saw light<br>Minute for minute, nine months from the night<br>The mother first lay in her lover’s arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She says a friend of hers<br>Is a man’s mistress who gives jewels and furs<br>But will not have her soft limbs cased in stays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lesbia+Harford">Lesbia Harford</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447410" data-title="Machinist Talking de Lesbia Harford" data-description="I sit at my machine, Hour long beside me Vera aged nineteen, Babbles her sweet and innocent tale of sex. Her boy, she hopes, will prove Unlike his father in the act of love, Twelve children are too many for her taste. She looks sidelong, blue-ey..."></div> </div> </div>

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