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A late night poem
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A late night poem

I don't know Why by Paul Verlaine

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Today was World Poetry Day, a day almost done. But first, a late night poem by the melancholy Paul Verlaine. There is much to be said of him, but tonight just his words. He had a wayward life, drowning much of it in absinthe, but his poems were beautiful. The gulls and the bottom of the glass knew him, as did the author of A S…

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