53. LIII.
FREE LOVE.
I beleaf in free fights, espeshila amung cats and
doggs.
I beleaf in free rides—on a gate.
I beleaf in freedum for evry slave on arth.
But free love iz one ov them kinds ov fredum, that
it don't do tew be limber with.
If this world was the gardin ov Edin, and full ov
Adam and Eve, az they was when they was fust
launched, then i kan imagine it might do for sum
other Adam to hold mi Eve on his lap, and talk
about his affinitee, and spiritoal essence, and play
lamb.
In them daze, thare want no humin natur, it was
all God natur.
Humin natur has bin soaked so mutch sinse, it has
got tew weak tew be trusted in a lot whare the feed
iz poor, nex tew a meddo, without mutch fence between
nor enny poke on.
Free love wants more poke than enny other animal.
I don't believe in total depravity—unless a man
has a good chance.
Free love iz a good deal like drinking 6 shilling
gin for a bevridge. Bevridge iz a Chinese word,
and means cussidness.
Aul the free love i hav witnessed thus far, has existed
between a villainous letcher on one side, and
lunatick virtue on the other side, that had bin deoderized
out ov its truth, and had lost aul ov its
modesty, and shame, in hunting after a condishun,
whare sin ceazed tew be a crime.
The fust free lover we hav enny akount ov, was
the devil.
