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Huang O

  • “All you can do is mumble. / You've made me all wet and slippery, / But no matter how hard you try / Nothing happens. So stop. / Go and make somebody else / Unsatisfied.”

    • Huang O,
    • c. 1525, "To the tune ''Red Embroidered Shoes'," in Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung, trans., eds., The Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China ()

Huang O, Chinese poet

(c. 1525)