The Green Fairy

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Oscar Wilde, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, Ernest Hemingway, Dita von Teese, Aleister Crowley, Ernest Dowson, in that order from lines 1 -6 . I wrote this after my first glass of Absinthe. It's about absinthe

The Green Fairy

Wilde girl

Toulouse ‘n too free

Hills like White Elephants

The fairy’s a Teese

The Beast

“Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder”

Not the only one she’s been with

Not the only one with whom she’s lain

What I’ve done  with her

Will forever be lost in the unconscious

 

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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