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My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe
Blaise Cendrars
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Blaise Cendrars
Age: 73 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 1
Died: 1961
Died: February 21
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French Foreign Legionnaire
Journalist
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Travel Writer
War Correspondent
Writer
La Chaux-de-Fonds NE
Frédéric Louis Sauser
Frederic Louis Sauser
Frédéric Sauser
Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser)
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Smoke
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Frayed
Universe
Flame
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Flames
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