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Tuesday 4 January 2011

Tonight, drunk on poetry

閱詩要配烈酒

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Labels: books, captured, Eddie Tay, others' poetry, t, this is london

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Kevin12 January 2011 at 07:50
那你的詩像哪種酒？
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