I’Ve Never Had It Done So Gently Before, by Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan

I’Ve Never Had It Done So Gently Before

The sweet juices of your mouth

are like castles bathed in honey.

I’ve never had it done so gently before.

You have put a circle of castles

around my penis and you swirl them

like sunlight on the wings of birds.

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