Activities of Hans Ostrom

1887 L. C. SMITHERS tr. Forberg's Man.Class. Erotology v.122 A man who is in the habit of putting out his tongue for the obscene act of cunnilinging. 1897 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex. I. iv.98 The extreme gratification is cunnilingus, ..sometimes called sapphism.
--Oxford Dictionary of the English Language, online

The gratification can be extreme. That's true.
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Petroleum nightmares sizzle
and burst on smoking sidewalks.

Hurricanes scream at concussed
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From a classroom in a building on a knoll,
I look across, see the Sequoiadendron giganteum,
a shaggy green profile against distant blue-gray
Cascade Mountains and clouds rippled like a tide.
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a small moleskin notebook
somehow exhumed itself
from a mound of scribbling--
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Even if what we know is incorrect,
and most of it is,
how could it not be,
it's knowledge: it's in there,
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When English, just coltish,
was trotting around medieval isles,
a hoby was a small, busy horse
that went nowhere. Ah, then
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the gull's a white viceroy
in pink rubbery footwear,
strolling stiffly
amongst a dozen crows
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They call each other `E.' Elvis picks
wildflowers near the river and brings
them to Emily. She explains half-rhymes to him.
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If I understand Einstein
correctly, and I don’t,
my whereabouts are, strictly
speaking, unknown.
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If I understand Einstein
correctly, and I don't,
my whereabouts are, strictly
speaking, unknown.
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