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Dutch Laundry


Those garments I deliver'd there
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  Had seen true Netherlands;
  There's a fouler red-light zone
Slept wrapt within those cotton bands.


I thought it might be coin-machines;
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  I ought to've left a tip—
  For O! stiff scent of thrice-worn socks,
They swapp'd for bloss'ming tulip.







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