My petite — Abba T.A. Sheriff

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My petite

Oh ye my petite
Your golden brown shirleyless face
Magnetise I to you
Your milk-white eyes brighten my
heart
Your fairy voice my best melody
Your velvet lips need no stick
Your thirty-two brighter than diamond
Arabian damsels envy your hair
Oh ye my petite
Your hospitality simplicity
Tenderness plus beauty
Glue I to you”
But away
Far away you seem to be
From my loving arms
Oh ye my petite
My portable petite
To have you it seems
Like swimming the atlantic

Abba T.A. Sheriff · 1993

EDITOR’S NOTE

Originally published in Citizen on 18 January 1993, p. 49. This diplomatic transcription preserves the wording and lineation verified against the archived page.

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