An Interesting Attitude

That evening decided --
why not be lovers factually?
–it’s dark, so we shan’t be seen.
I leaned right over her actually
and actually,
as I,
leaned,
said to her,
like a good father :
“Passion’s steep as a precipice
–please, I beg you,
stand back farther.
Farther still,
I beg you, please.”

Vladimir Mayakovsky