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Author: Allan Dale Maurer
Contact: Almaur777/bigfoot.com
Profile: I'm primarily a nonfiction writer, though I have published science
fiction, had a play produced, and have written poetry since high school.
Baudelaire And Poe
By Allan Dale Maurer
Poe and Baudelaire Meet
Walking down a New York City
Street.
They recognize each
Other
Immediately. They
Embrace.
Each sees his
Soul
Shares two bodies.
Each
Knows the other’s
Moonwhite face.
That sly, silly, smile
You see in their
Photographs
Had Mona Lisa-ed them into
The Future.
They are still
A century ahead,
Though they really
Should be dead.
Poe enters The
Betty Ford Clinic.
Baudelaire shoots up
Penicillin.
Syphillis and Alcohol
Free,
Neither can write.
Together, they decide
On a Poetic dual
Suicide.
But a smile takes
Them home to die
before they try.
Back in the 19th
Century
Neither remembers
Their meeting.
They go back to
Lonely work, vague memories
Of another time
Creeping into poetic lines.
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