
Yeah, that’s the look of a man I’d imagine to use metaphysical pick-up lines – Bust of John Donne photographed by Matthew Black, Wikipedia “John Donne”, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
(1654) JOHN DONNE – TO HIS MISTRESS GOING TO BED
One of the metaphysical poets. I don’t recall what makes a poet metaphysical but this poem would suggest that it’s being pretty raunchy.
“Licence my roving hands, and let them go,
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdom, safeliest when with one man mann’d”
Now that’s metaphysics!
I don’t know how it would go down standing over your mistress and declaring her to be your America as saucy foreplay these days. It’s time to manifest your destiny, baby!
I do like how the poem finishes off (heh) with its version of that cheesy pick-up line – “You know what would look good on you? Me!”
To teach thee, I am naked first; why then
What needst thou have more covering than a man.
