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January 29th, 2006 by Administrator

Mallarmé and Rimbaud

The literary ideal,
Said Mallarmé, saintly and dapper,
Would be a blank
Sheet of paper.

But Rimbaud
Went the whole hog,
Became a business man
And lost his leg.

From Seventy Poems (Alan Swallow, 1965)

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