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I Step Outside Myself

by Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann

I step outside
myself, out of my eyes,
hands, mouth, outside
of myself I
step, a bundle
of goodness and godliness
that must make good
this devilry
that has happened.




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