For the Poem Paterson [3. St. Valentine]
A woman's breasts for beauty A man's delights for charm The rod and cups of duty to stave us from harm! A woman's eyes a woman's thighs and a man's straight look: Cities rotted to pig-sties will stand up by that book!
From The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams. Copyright © 1988 by Christopher MacGowan. Reprinted with permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.