Olga pushed some Victorian books, too,
With antique words like "stout member" and "shew."
From the eggplant in Barth's Sot-Weed Factor
To "Nurse" in the classic Depraved Doctor,
Even the filth in DeSade's Greatest Hits
Worked with run-of-the-mill degenerates:
What they read meant less than at least reading,
Because any text worked for the seeding
Of mutant genes in human chromosomes
That understood as if from the telephone
A borne-on-consciousness version of the
Free Library of Alexandria.