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[sexbeat_go]

I've been reading the journals of Charles Baudelaire lately.

"What is Love?
The need to emerge from oneself.
Man is an animal which adores.
To adore is to sacrifice and prostitute oneself.
Thus all Love is prostitution."

"To be a great man and a saint by one's own standards, that is all that matters

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[terminallyjill]

I do love the great poet of moral decay, but this is a good one also.
Beauty Is Everywhere, Baudelaire
Jack Micheline

Beauty is everywhere
Baudelaire
Even the worm is beautiful
The thread of a beggar's dress
The red eye of a drunkard
On a rainy night
Chasing the red haired girl
Baudelaire
Across the sky
Your raggy pants
Laughing at the rain
Beauty is everywhere
Baudelaire

[sexbeat_go]

I love Jack Micheline! I didn't even know anyone else read him. I remember the first time I read him in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. I was 16 and remembering thinking he had it all over Kerouac.