"There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper."

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Source : Natasha Trethewey (2002). “Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems”, Graywolf Press

Natasha Trethewey

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