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“aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning”

Quote by Colleen J. McElroy

Book:What Madness Brought Me Here: New and Selected Poems, 1968–1988

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What Madness Brought Me Here: New and Selected Poems, 1968–1988

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