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clogic-191942	Murphy, Paul	In the Luxembourg Gardens and Other Poems	2019	3	.pdf	application/pdf	635	21	55	Copyright © 2002 by Paul Murphy and Cultural Logic, ISSN 1097-3087 And Lady Chatterley's Lover's unbanning, as if that dour Nottinghamshire face appeared at the dolequeue, or walking with The crowds to Camberwell, a manuscript of 'The White Peacock' Stuffed under his coat; I strode to the Tube and disappeared Into the Underground's haze: those were the days of Ol' Ez, The Modern Movement, Lawrence died in Vence, Ez got gaoled In Pisa, Ole Possum strode above them, a banker's ledger stuffed Into a scroll of poems, Nobel Prize, OM, no rewards for the men And women of the Revolution. When my handgun gesticulated wildly In La Rue Victor Cousin, In the Luxembourg Gardens We stole off to the Parisien To see the busts Arranged in verisimilitude With depictions Of the French Revolution For sale at one hundred Francs, plastic Eiffel Towers, T-shirts with the logo 'Vive la Revolution' plastered on them: Where were Danton, Robespierre, Marat -- Heaps of junk in the mini-markets Rotting fish, heaps of rotting meat, The Morrocans bartering for bread, Brown haired girls carrying fish To the vendors, tradesmen, Egalite, Liberte, Fraternite Was the garbage of history, Gone with the soupstains The ashcans, David's Napoleon Rode through the Tullieries, With the Army of the Revolution A ghostly battalion Of waifs and unwanted The unelected inheritors Waited for the milkround.	cache/clogic-191942.pdf	txt/clogic-191942.txt