I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and …

Adrienne Rich
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1971). The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1971). The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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