Exile
According to Graham Robb’s biography of Rimbaud,
.he & Verlaine visited Hyde Park Corner as tourists
………….during their first period in London.
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Did Rimbaud go to visit Number One,
London? Did Arthur view the Duke’s white bust
Of Cicero and see Napoleon
Butt naked and imperial, but just
Some marble in the victor’s vestibule
Now, vanquished after Waterloo? The lad
Had worshiped Communards and hoped to fuel
A revolution in French verse that had
Bowed itself to royal alexandrines far too
Long. But despair destroyed the boy. He gave
Up, frittered away his chance to make new
The cosmos of poetry. Not as brave
As Cicero, the gypsy’s weak answer
Was to flop about and die of cancer.