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TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF HIS LIFE by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY

First Line: HE GOES REGULARLY TO THE TAVERNA
Last Line: WILL LAND HIM IN A DEVASTATING SCANDAL
Subject(s): HOMOSEXUALITY;

Poem Sources:

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HOMOSEXUAL VERSE.
  COOTE, STEPHEN (ED.)
  (1983)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD (TRS.)
  CAVAFY, C. P.
  (1992)
 



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