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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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Face Lift

8 lines
Sylvia Plath·1932–1963
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ou bring me good news from the clinic, Whipping off your silk scarf, exhibiting the tight whiteMummy-cloths, smiling: I’m all right. When I was nine, a lime-green anesthetist Fed me banana gas through a frog-mask. The nauseous vaultBoomed with bad dreams and the Jovian voices of surgeons.Then mother swam up, holding a tin basin. O I was sick.
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