Comment by robot-wrangler
1 day ago
> I've heard that for humans too, indecent proposals are more likely to penetrate protective constraints when couched in poetry
Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mist...
hah, barely couched at all
Subtlety was not over-trained back then. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50721/the-vine