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    Rough Fluff: One Hundred Love Poems
    Rough Fluff: One Hundred Love Poems
    Rough Fluff: One Hundred Love Poems
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    Rough Fluff: One Hundred Love Poems

    By D. L. Forbes

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    Most attempts at expression in "The Arts of Love" are essentially remedial and meditative, and this how I see much of my own writing and painting; practices that may curb one's propensity towards misery, murder or suicide, or incarceration in institutions and prison, or sitting about all night in a doughnut shop, "musing."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJun 1, 2019
    ISBN9781543971064
    Rough Fluff: One Hundred Love Poems

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      Rough Fluff - D. L. Forbes

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the author’s prior consent in any form of binding, cover, or device other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      All rights reserved

      © D. L. Forbes 2019

      Print ISBN: 978-1-54397-105-7

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-54397-106-4

      1. Poems of Love - Poetry 2. poetry retail

      FOURBEESBOOKS

      London, Edinburgh & San Francisco

      ALSO BY D. L. FORBES

      SAXONFORD

      VOLUME ONE

      WINTER INTO SUMMER

      Fiction

      SAXONFORD

      VOLUME TWO

      SUMMER INTO WINTER

      Fiction

      CHILDREN OF SYCORAX

      Fiction/Biography

      LIFE THREATENING POETRY ACROSS AMERICA

      ONE HUNDRED ONE DOLLAR POEMS

      The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number One

      UMLUNGU

      THE WHITE SCUM THAT FLOATS IN THE SURF

      ONE HUNDRED EVERYDAY POEMS

      The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Two

      YID UN GOY YINGL

      Fiction/Biography/

      GENTILE AND JEW BOYS

      ONE HUNDRED POEMS FOR SHEM

      The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Three

      ROUGH FLUFF

      ONE HUNDRED LOVE POEMS

      The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Four

      CHARMED, I’M SURE

      ONE HUNDRED SEXUAL POEMS

      The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Five

      WITTGENSTEIN’S SON

      &

      U. G. KRISHNAMURTI

      DUCKS OR RABBITS

      Autobiography/Biography

      CAT GOT MY BRAIN

      ONE HUNDRED MAD POEMS

      The One Hundred Poetry Series – Number Six

      THREE PLAYS

      I. BABY

      II. RUNS IN THE FAMILY

      III. LAND’S END

      Introduction

      Most attempts at expression in The Arts of Love are essentially remedial and meditative, and this how I see much of my own writing and painting; practices that may curb one’s propensity towards misery, murder or suicide, or incarceration in institutions and prison.

      Small comfort though are murderous and suicidal ideations as one ages, growing often more rancorous and wearier in the pursuit and capture of The Poetic Muse; that ever-present, ever-changing spring of arty vision.

      The last time I bagged me a top-quality poetic muse, after a few months The Muse began to behave in quite an inappropriate and most un-muse-like manner; finally, drunk, verbally abusive and waving a knife in my direction, I told this muse-turned-beast to bugger off out of it. When the muse no longer amuses, the muse is not long lived . . . so here we are, muse-less once more – but that’s okay, I can handle it, for I am of genus Rough Fluff (rufius flufius) and so known in younger days at certain men’s clubs throughout Europe, Asian and the United States.

      This selection of poems spans a period of over forty years. Not presented here chronologically, but poems that drew my interest or particular remembrance, and taken randomly from many notebooks, the backs of old envelopes and such, as a rambling sampler.

      D. L. Forbes – 2019

      In Memory of You

      Contents

      Inevitable Cows

      Love-Time Lunch

      A Secret Life

      My Monkey-Man – I

      My Monkey-Man - II

      Funny Love

      The Stink

      Getting Boinked

      Dumped

      Flicker of Love

      Late

      Who’s Kinky-Poos Then

      Who Was That?

      Maharaja of Sunnyvale

      Business in San Francisco

      VI. My Policeman Friend

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