I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. (Rickie Lee Jones)

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Rickie Lee Jones

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