A portrait in contrasts

Turned off by the morbidity, if not the titillation, of her vision and the conventionality of her poetry, I yearn for the wholesomeness of her ‘Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker,’ ‘Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy’ and on learning of taciturn Pres Coolidge’s death, ‘How did they tell?’

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