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For today, my favorite poem. Also, the title is my birthday (though methinks "1983" would be better for my own self-interested reasons). Anyone else notice how much of a poetry interest we Blogorites seem to have? It's uncanny.

May 24, 1980
by Joseph Brodsky

I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages,
carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters,
lived by the sea, flashed aces in an oasis,
dined with the-devil-knows-whom, in tails, on truffles.
From the height of a glacier I beheld half a world, the earthly

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