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31 The narrow path (For Francis Selormey) Blue tulips for breakfast Are not necessarily bad for health Not even when for the sake of clarity One starts by reciting John Three Sixteen. 75. An evening with De Gaulle I sat there wooden-faced As if jinxed or even paxmanned It didn’t matter that I too Like Ahidjo, like Senghor, like Houphouet Was rubbing shoulders with De Gaulle "Je vous ai compris!" So near, yet so far was I Hemmed in as it were by Verdzekov’s rhetoric And Bame Bame’s implied philosophy Here was I today with brethren Whether from Samaria or Galicia or even Rome To whom the overarching De Gaulle edifice Meant nothing to anyone. What mattered was the wine, the booze The women, the misses, the near misses The conjectures, the half truths The half-baked projects The vague promises In short a future held on a distant platter With nothing more than ‘A face on which time makes but little impression’. ...

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