Getting CSRF token mismatch with cURL POST request

I can't understand what is happening here. When I make a POST request using Postman it works! But when I try to do a cURL POST request from a route then it gives me this error:

CSRF token mismatch /Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php#82

Here is my VerifyCsrfToken:

    protected $except = [
        'https://log.mywebsite.com/*',
    ];

Here is my cURL request

    Route::get('test', function (Illuminate\Http\Request $request)
    {
        $endpoint_url = 'https://log.mywebsite.com/';

        $data_to_post = ['log_message' => 'foo'];

        $options = [
            CURLOPT_URL        => $endpoint_url,
            CURLOPT_POST       => true,
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data_to_post,
        ];

        $curl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt_array($curl, $options);
        $results = curl_exec($curl);
        curl_close($curl);

        return response()->json($results);
    });

What is happening? I'm so confused.. Why does it work with Postman but not from my route?