Quote Investigator identifies this fragment as part of Poindexter’s The blooming of madness, circulated in 2013, and records his authorship confirmation. It is not a Fitzgerald line; the original social-media artifact has not been independently retrieved here.
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The blooming of madness, fourth short poem
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2013
Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness
Quote Investigator identifies this fragment as part of Poindexter’s The blooming of madness, circulated in 2013, and records his authorship confirmation. It is not a Fitzgerald line; the original social-media artifact has not been independently retrieved here. Read the source
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Quote Investigator identifies this fragment as part of Poindexter’s The blooming of madness, circulated in 2013, and records his authorship confirmation. It is not a Fitzgerald line; the original social-media artifact has not been independently retrieved here. Check the evidence
✓The link with F. Scott Fitzgerald is a later misattribution, not evidence that the poem appears in his books. Read the research
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