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Man of Letters | Frieze
Sometimes I pick up my book of Heine
and enjoy his pop-song sorrow;
he sings of death so bitterly
it makes me fear my own tomorrow.

He isn't some pretentious poet,
but a prankster in the flesh.
He wakes you from a dream,
a dream still fresh.

He runs with a girl downhill,
but it's a dream! He's an old man.
To break your heart with his
is Heine's only plan.

Listen to these moderns:
thinking, learned, doddering, slow.
In slow-motion they think
there's something Heine doesn't know.



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