The fruit rolled by all day.
They prayed the cogs would creep;
They thought about Saturday pay,
And Sunday sleep.
Whatever he smelled was good:
The fruit and flesh smells mixed.
There beside him she stood,--
And he, perplexed;
He, in his shrunken britches,
Eyes rimmed with pickle dust,
Prickling with all the itches
Of sixteen-year-old lust.
Pickle Belt
Theodore Roethke
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Poem topics: lust, sleep, good, year, dust, sunday, thought, Valentine's Day, saturday, fruit, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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