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Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

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I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,
And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner.
Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat,
I'll stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

Source: BE OFF!.
-- 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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