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Stevie Smith, Selected Poems Quotes: The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.
         

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.


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