Today is Thursday, Vallejo is dying, but come, girl, get yo… - Derek Walcott

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Today is Thursday, Vallejo is dying,
but come, girl, get your raincoat, let's look for life
in some cafe behind tear-streaked windows,
perhaps the fin de siecle isn't really finished,
maybe there's a piano playing it somewhere

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About Derek Walcott

Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930 – March 17 2017) was a West Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who wrote mainly in English. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

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Native Name: Derek Alton Walcott

Alternative Names: Sir Derek Alton Walcott

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You want to hear my history? Ask the sea.

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,
for the eternal idleness of the imagined return,
for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

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