Apollinaire Said

Apollinaire said
'Come to the edge'
'It is too high'
'Come to the edge'
'We might fall'
'Come to the edge'

And they came
And he pushed them
And they flew

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On this day in 1918, the French poet, Guillaume Apollinaire was wounded in the head by a shell splinter
(subsequently dying in the influenza epidemic on November 9th, 1918).