From "Aphorisms and Spells"
As I am Catholic
I have never played.
* * *
I've had
thirty-six lovers
plus tax.
* * *
I am the most chaste woman
in Italian literature.
* * *
I am completely
asexual
not counting errors
and omissions.
* * *
Mount Sinai
is sometimes confused
with the Mons Veneris.
* * *
No one can know
what is
between me and God.
Translated by Translated by Douglas Basford
From Volume 191, Number 3, December 2007
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