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Portrait

He finished up the portrait~~~~ yesterday at noon. Now
he studies it in detail. ~~~~ He did him in a gray
jacket, all unbuttoned, ~~~~ a deep gray. Without
any vest or tie. ~~~~ In a shirt of rose;
so a little of ~~~~ the beauty of the chest,
the beauty of the throat, ~~~~ might show through a bit.

The right side of his brow ~~~~ is almost totally
covered by his hair,~~~~ by his beautiful hair
(which is combed the way ~~~~ he fancies it this year).
The note is utterly ~~~~ the voluptuous one
that he wanted to strike ~~~~ when he did the eyes,
when he did the lips... ~~~~ That mouth of his, the lips
made for the fulfillment ~~~~~ of a choice eroticism.

C.P. Cavafy

note: Cavafy used space.
Blogspot wouldn't recognize the spaces so I inserted ~s.
The poem looks better with the spaces.