Peaches were unfortunately out of season so I had to use a nectarine but I felt this added to the general artifice implied in the poem: 

 

‘Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.’ 

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- The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot, 1915 

 

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