To Baudelaire

[FractalPacifist]

I liked the imagery and the feel of this; I got the feel of a dimly lit room (old gaslamps) and quite a few empty wine bottles scattered about.

I think the only part that got to me was the sound. You've got a pretty strong set of beats up until "girls". The next line almost matched the sound of the first, but the line right after ("to dead chivalry and to Sappho's ghost") struck me as off, sound-wise, and the others didn't pull me back in. I think you just left me craving a slightly more repetitive meter.

Drown me in thy wine, Baudelaire! I read this as: trochee, anapest, anapest. DUM dah dah dah DUM, dah dah DUM.
We will drink to the Spleen and the Ideal!
anapest, anapest, anapest, (last one was a little forced, but not bad)
We will drink to our evils,
anapest, anapest ("evils" is a little forced again)
to our unquenched desires
anapest, anapest
which push us ever forward towards new girls,
here it gets a little more muddled. I can't decide if I want to read it as "which PUSH us" or "which push US." assuming the second one and kinda reading "forward" as one syllable, we've got: anapest, anapest, anapest. So far, so good.
We will drink to old knighthoods, Baudelaire,
this wants to be "anapest, anapest, anapest," but "hoods" throws it off. Not a problem if the following lines pick it back up.
To dead chivalry and to Sappho's ghost
and this line threw me off. If I try to read the first three syllables as an anapest, I'm left with four soft syllables - "ry and to saph", since I tend to read "sappho" as an iamb.
We will drink to the good death, and the good evil,
once again, a little confused. Starts with an anapest, and then gets fuzzy with "to the good death." Google just told me that that is called a "quartus paeon", or duh duh duh DUM. Not a bad way to do meter, but not fitting with the rest. After this point, the meter deviates pretty strongly, but I think you get my idea.
And the Architect! And we will drink
to all soured lesbians and sex workers
of old Paris, of old gaslamps, of old bottles of wine.

So, I hope my slightly inexperienced breakdown of meter helped. I really do like the sound of the first half; if the second half fit as well, I'd be in love with this.