My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why …

T. S. Eliot
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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2011). The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot, p.56, Faber & Faber
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