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Liber Amoris

To never again be possessed
of  Hazlitt's Demon
for in my time I have written
a "Liber Amoris" or two.

I have had the misfortune
to know Sally Walker
who sat on my knee--kissed me
with lips that soon turned cold.

And I have scribbled manic verse
extoling virtues that committed
hyperbolic, disjointed crimes
of monstrous impropriety.

And so maybe leniency permits
the uneven lines of fevered pens
that re-call Chancery Lane
and voyages into the snake pit.

Author notes

Hazlitt's fevered confession can be read here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/nwpyg10.txt

or here:

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=sDU-AAAAIAAJ&dq=Liber+Amoris&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=useZslrjGu&sig=44NkE-z-4LlMI13mEO3utqwr4u8&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result

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