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Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Spinning
Ghost
Bottom
Forever
Space
Live
Without
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Haunted

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Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.
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The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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