Jenny Kissed Me

Pablo Picasso

The Kiss

Jenny Kissed Me

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,

Jumping from the chair she sat in;

Time, you thief, who love to get

Sweets into your list, put that in!

Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,

Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,

Say I'm growing old, but add,

Jenny kiss'd me.

~ James Leigh Hunt ~

Elvis Kissed Me

Andy Warhol

Elvis Triple

Elvis Kissed Me

"Elvis kissed me once," she swears,

sitting in a neon dive

ordering her drinks in pairs.

Two stools down you nurse a beer,

sensing easy pickings here.

"Back in sixty-eight," she sighs,

smoothing back her yellow hair.

Teared mascara smears her eyes.

Drawing near, you claim you've met,

offer her a cigarette.

"Call me cheap," she sobs, "or bad,

say that decent men dismissed me,

say I've lost my looks, but add,

Elvis kissed me."

~ T. S. Kerrigan ~

The Kiss

Francois Boucher

The Interrupted Sleep

The Kiss

'I saw you take his kiss!' ''Tis true.

''O, modesty!' ' 'Twas strictly kept:

He thought me asleep; at least I knew

He thought I thought he thought I slept.'

~ Coventry Patmore ~