Lust (Howard)

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Lust (2007)
by Robert Ervin Howard

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First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1 (2007), where it appears in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926.

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I am a golden lure.
I am the laughter of false goddesses.
I go disguised as Love.
Men are my slaves.
Women are my slaves.
I am a goddess and the world is my shrine.
I am the night wind
Blowing through the leaves.
I am the moonlight of a hidden glade.
I am starlight
On a palace.
I am Lust.

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