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This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

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Dylan Thomas
Age: 39 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 27
Died: 1953
Died: November 9
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Abertawe
Dylan Marlais Thomas
Girl
Forks
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Smoking
Round
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Devil
Drug
Curling
Half
Daft
Eye
Bud

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