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Baudelaire
All my words are down,
Evidently absent
From polite gestures
For they have been turned around
A view I’ve not seen,
Shoe-gazing upward
Into a conversation
Oh no! Obscurity
All my words are bored,
Counting syllables
Trying to recollect
How to spell distress?
A view I’ve not seen,
Shoe-gazing upward
Into real intelligence
Oh no! Pretence
If this night continues
As dull as it seems
Then in a few more moments
It is not merely
My words that will leave
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