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  • The Paris Review

    Two Poems by Charles Baudelaire

    Jun 09, 2020 2 minutes
    —Translated from the French by David Lehman

    FAKE MONEY

    fter my friend and I left the tobacco shop, he carefully sorted his loose change; slipped some small gold coins in his left jacket pocket; into the right went the silver pieces; in his left pants pocket, a handful of centimes; and in the right, a silver two-franc piece he inspected closely. I wondered

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