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Rimbaud

He wrote in whole form,
an oblong displays of life

above

the heads of the Zutist Circle.


Back and forth

swinging


like a guillotine.

He pinned art:
from lice,
hunger pains, broken glass, booze, the dank smell of the sea, black pots, grime and diease.


He created expression from decay,

              absurdity, desperation.


A prodigy child driven into throes
by the tongues of men.


He sucked life,
from withered bones,
with lips as blunt as 

butter knives.