translated from the French by Liz Abernethy



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Allegory

Charles Baudelaire, translated from the French by Liz Abernethy

The Literary Issue — Dec 14, 2006

A beautiful woman of equestrian breadth,
Lets the ends of her hair dandle in her wine,
And the talons of love and the poisons of nightclubs,
Give her marble skin lifelessness and gloss,
And she teases Death and ridicules Debauchery,
Those monsters that her hand, always scraping and poor,
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