I hope my title won’t shock you
For my words are perfectly true
No I wasn’t seeking a roll in the hay ...
I visited a brothel in ancient Pompeii
Lupanar is Latin for brothel
And its translation is wolf den
The ladies were known as 'she wolves'
Lupa is the word used to describe them
The Lupanare had ten tiny rooms
Each with a small stone bed
It would be covered with a mattress of straw
So the lupa would not hurt her head!
Outside each room was an erotic fresco
The pictures were really quite shocking
For two loaves of bread and some wine
It would pay for the Lupa you’re knocking!
Information from our tour guide Franchesca
09 08 17
Perhaps we have loved before
in the Lupanar of Pompei
goddess of Priapus
the overseer
of the fertile garden
commanded me.
We perspired upon pillows
stuffed with reeds
feathers and straw
most unwitting lady
whispered to me
"You will be Priapus!"
Content within you
likeness of dedicated fruit
made love into real fruit
worn lascivious acts
woman of well-borne grapes
dark skinned lady enraged with lust.
Stars may rise and set
but the light within us has set
night becomes one long dream
I now desire for 1000 more kisses
dark goddess of Priapus
from where Romulus and Remus
suckled the milk of the she-wolf...
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