“Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.” MindYoungGirlLeftWhiteBottomLovelyGrassCarpe DiemBarrelsRustCarpeClovers Book:In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007 Source: In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007
