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Once I a bumbling fumbler in my handling of women,

I’m timidly fearful of the trigger mechanisms

that my dismal advances unwittingly might release -

like sneezing from pepper, or coughing from acrid smoke.

Token of absurdity, like the village idiot transposed

to the closed circle of the Queen's court, who resorts

to chortles in sessions of silence, smiling inanely

to kill the pain from some inner inadequate hollow.

Emboldened now with frequent booze, I flash

a brash personality, like an oversized

prized penis, seen as a shock measure -

a treasure to take their wandering attention by storm.

     Regardless of their sham outraged ado,

     I've got the knack - no matter what I do!