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Peaches in panties - from RocketNews24

Peaches to Market

 

According to RocketNews24, peach producers in the PRC are struggling to make sales. A controversial marketing ploy prompted China-based poet Reid Mitchell to pen this paean to peaches.

 

 

 

PEACHES to MARKET

 

Chinese peaches clad in panties

snuggling in strawlined boxes

lift their buttocks, offering

firm but ripening flesh

 

to sharp incisors.  Witness

the smirks on their pantied bottoms

as each is raised

to be eaten.  Cruel lovers

 

crave fresh bruises.  Mature

connoisseurs treasure most

the first faint scent of terroir

White peaches of Wuxi

 

carried in hatboxes that bump

sharply against the knees

and thighs of girls who are taking

today's last train to Shanghai.

 


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