I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly hap…

Sylvia Plath
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I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2015). Collected Poems, p.204, Faber & Faber
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I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2015). Collected Poems, p.204, Faber & Faber

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