Steven Toussaint
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‘A Quidam’: a poem by Steven Toussaint
A Quidam I’d been casualised again, High ChurchAssignations likely the cause. No free lunches.Only fans. I let them watch me researchLatinity in poetry today. My hunch was Quantity callously tugged us, like beads toldOr bowels, unravelled in the Grand GuignolAs we passed nights racked on Théophile Gautier’s fourfold:Verse, onyx, marble, email. But deep work is…