A Dog After Love

Yehuda Amichai 1924 (Würzburg) – 2000 (Israel)



After you left me
I let a dog smell at
My chest and my belly. It will fill its nose
And set out to find you.

I hope it will tear the
Testicles of your lover and bite off his penis
Or at least
Will bring me your stockings between his teeth.
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Submitted by naama on July 15, 2020

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Scheme XXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 232
Words 52
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai (‎3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet. more…

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