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who poverty and tatters
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and hollow eyed and high
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sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness
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of cold water flats
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floating across the tops of cities, contempiating jazz,
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who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes
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hallucinating Arkansas and
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Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
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who were expelled from the academies for crazy
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and publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
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who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear,
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burning their money in wastebaskets