Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experie…

Adrienne Rich
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life. ✨ 1963 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughterin- Law,1'.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life. ✨ 1963 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughterin- Law,1'.

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