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Per Contra

An international journal of the arts, literature, and ideas.

L’empereur s’amuse

by David R. Slavitt

The odorific
Visigothic,
Theodoric
was hysteric
and dysphoric.
Sometimes he would be choleric
and a doctor or a cleric
thinking it might be enteric
upset gave him paregoric.

Other work by David R. Slavitt:

  • Sweetness and Light
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