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Pastimes : New Feelies, Sort of, For Anyone who Feels Like a Feelie
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To: Ilaine who wrote (437)1/12/2000 11:53:00 PM
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I can't find the one I was looking for, but this is more Stevie Smith. Like a knife in the heart, her poems can be. She is so witty, and so dark, and so bitter, and also often so funny.

Bereavement

Maria Holt
Was not the dolt
That people thought her.
Her face was full
Her mind not dull
She was my daughter.
She had so much to do so very much
And used to shuffle round upon a crutch,
The younger children always called her mother,
And so she was to sister and to brother
Poor wretch she's dead and now I am bereft
Of 60 pounds each year to fill the place she left
I never paid a cent before; it is too bad,
It's worse to lose a lass than lose a lad.

~Stevie Smith~
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