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And on the same theme.

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Never read this one before.

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It's called "Wormwood,"
Latin name for which

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is Artemisia absinthium.

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And Russian word
to which is полынь.

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"A flight of loose
stairs off the street

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into a high succession of
empty rooms, prolapsed chairs,

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and a memory of women perfumed
with hand oil and Artemisia

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absinthium, Wormwood to me.

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And to the sappy
Russian sailors, полынь.

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A scooped back ballroom gown
shows the telltale bra strap--

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red, tired, losing
its elasticity.

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Leave it, my maths master used
to say at a dropped pencil.

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It can't fall any further.

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Well, I couldn't and
neither could she."

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