This also ends by echoing the beautiful ave atque vale of Catullus' poem for his dead brother. I was in such haste, simply typing in Len's address and pressing forward, that I didn't read all the submissions to this year's bake-off. This one fairly leapt off the page. Of course I'm crazy for Catullus, and I'm a pretty big fan of this poet too. Svein, you don't really think Alan would have said "I'm old enough to be your mother." I'd say that makes it rather unlikely that the author is male.
And what's the French poem that ends "hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frere." Baudelaire? Lots of layers here.
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