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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

Stevie Smith
Swimming, People, Fish Tanks
Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.311, Faber & Faber
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.