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THE COCK PARTY

The image shows a blackout poetry page, with black marker crossing out most of the text, and the remaining text revealing a poetic message. In the midst of the crossing out, interrupting it, there are images towards the top and middle of the right side. In the top right middle, there is a slightly open mouth, with red lipstick and white teeth, featuring a cut out in the middle where the word "traces" appears. On the top right side, there is a topless torso, featuring a cut out right beneath the chest, where the phrase "her body" appears. Below the mouth, there is a black silouette of two people on top of one another, kissing, in red light. There is a cut out towards the bottom half of both people, where the phrase "the plague" appears. To the right side of the people, there is the naked bottom half of a human figure, with a hole cut out where the torso and the thighs meet, where the word "feeble" appears. Beneath this, there is the upper half of a topless woman with long, straight, black hair held to the side with golden rings, who is holding a yellow heart-shape to her chest.

By Unknown

THE COCK PARTY

her body
traces
the plague
feeble
a waste
all a mistake.

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