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 "title": "Lunar Baedeker",
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  "venue": "Lunar Baedecker (Contact Publishing, Paris, 1923)",
  "note": "Title poem of the collection, whose printed title misspells “Baedeker”; no earlier periodical printing established.",
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    "text": "A silver Lucifer",
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    "text": "serves",
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    "text": "cocaine in cornucopia",
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    "text": "To some somnambulists",
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    "text": "of adolescent thighs",
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    "text": "draped",
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    "text": "in satirical draperies",
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    "text": "Peris in livery",
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    "text": "prepare",
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    "text": "Lethe",
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    "text": "for posthumous parvenues",
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    "text": "Delirious Avenues",
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    "text": "lit",
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    "text": "with the chandelier souls",
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    "text": "of infusoria",
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    "text": "from Pharoah’s tombstones",
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    "text": "lead",
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    "text": "to mercurial doomsdays",
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    "text": "Odious oasis",
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    "text": "in furrowed phosphorous⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—",
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    "text": "the eye-white sky-light",
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    "text": "white-light district",
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    "text": "of lunar lusts",
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    "text": "—⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠Stellectric signs",
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    "text": "“Wing shows on Starway”",
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    "text": "“Zodiac carrousel”",
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    "text": "Cyclones",
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    "text": "of ecstatic dust",
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    "text": "and ashes whirl",
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    "text": "crusaders",
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    "text": "from hallucinatory citadels",
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    "text": "of shattered glass",
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    "text": "into evacuate craters",
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    "text": "A flock of dreams",
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    "text": "browse on Necropolis",
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    "text": "From the shores",
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    "text": "of oval oceans",
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    "text": "in the oxidized Orient",
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    "text": "Onyx-eyed Odalisques",
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    "text": "and ornithologists",
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    "text": "observe",
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    "text": "the flight",
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    "text": "of Eros obsolete",
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    "text": "And “Immortality”",
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    "text": "mildews⁠ ⁠…",
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    "text": "in the museums of the moon",
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    "text": "“Nocturnal cyclops”",
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    "text": "“Crystal concubine”",
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    "text": "Pocked with personification",
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    "text": "the fossil virgin of the skies",
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    "text": "waxes and wanes⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—⁠ ⁠—",
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