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The Last Binge of Youth: A Poem

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May 04, 2026
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The Last Binge of Youth

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

The last binge of youth, it walloped me good,
In ways sidle-wise and least understood;
It decked me and flummoxed, flat on the floor,
As spins the corners, I lay in the roar,
The roar of the brain-heat, nudging the sky,
Though it my surface and outer rind fry.
So bent th…

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