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DARK VELVET



We are all in the gutter,

but some of us are looking at stars.

                               — Oscar Wilde



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Some memories shine like living precious stones

Now scattered on the dark velvet here before me:

    Rubies, red with liquid passion;

    Opals, playful, transparent, pure;

    One rose quartz, heart-shaped and glowing;

    Sapphires, azure like some pensive gaze;

    Diamonds, strangely lucid,…