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Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Steaminess Rating

Exactly how steamy is this poem?

G

This poem has about as much sex in it as there was in nineteenth-century Puritanical Massachusetts on a Sunday. In other words: none. Feel free to read this one aloud from the church pew. There isn't even enough steam in it to smooth an already starched napkin.