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Premium Member Skeleton of Paris
TO PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH
   YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR DATE AND TIME
TO ENTER THE EMPIRE OF DEATH

“Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort!"

      Sign in Paris Catacombs

SKELETON OF PARIS

i dared each dank step
into the catacombs of Paris
thank the Lord
each...

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Categories: danton, death, paris,
Form: Free verse
Guillotine
Robespierre, Danton and all of those 
crazy French revolution 'heroes' 
had thousands guillotined  
by La Machine that gleaned 
heads; then 'offed' their own midst their wild throes....

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Categories: danton, history,
Form: Limerick
Camille Desmoulins Fall of the Bastille
Camille Desmoulins was a poet at the time of the French Revolution,
his enthusiastic speeches were practically the trigger for
the inspiring Revolution of other revolutions ... he acted together
to his inseparable friend DANTON in l789:

Every revolution has its day,
every change has its time,
the eld leaves, it...

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Categories: danton, allusion, history, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry

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Premium Member Monday Mandate
At his readiness, medley reduced to romance
     Pure patched with strategy, pony Rosinanthe 
     Slick sleuth rotund from a thousand tutorials 
     Ideality frisked into quixotic filly deplorable
     
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Categories: danton, absence, adventure, cry, engagement,
Form: Couplet

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