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Stevie Smith: Fourteen-year-old, why must...

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Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,
I giggle and dote in season.

Source: The Conventionalist..
-- Stevie Smith, (Sep 20 1902-1971), English poet; She expressed an original and visionary personality in her work, combining a lively wit with penetrating honesty and an absence of sentiment.


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