Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm …

Langston Hughes
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950, p.29, University of Missouri Press
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950, p.29, University of Missouri Press

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