Nightfall's Nest: Basement
One of the ones that Midas touched
Who failed to touch us all
Was that confiding prodigal
The reeling Oriole-
So drunk he disavows it
With badinage divine-
So dazzling we mistake him
For an alighting mine-
A pleader- a dissembler-
An epicure- a thief-
Betimes an oratorio-
An ecstacy in chief
--emily dickinson, 620
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