#live or die
Anne Sexton, Live or Die; from ‘Live’
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I could admit
that I am only a coward
crying me me me
and not mention the little gnats, the moths,
forced by circumstance
to suck on the electric bulb.
But surely you know that everyone has a death,
his own death,
waiting for him.
So I will go now
without old age or disease,
wildly but accurately,
knowing my best route,
carried by that toy donkey I rode all these years,
never asking, “Where are we going?”
We were riding (if I’d only known)
to this.
–Anne Sexton, from “Suicide Note“ written, June 1965, Live or Die, 1966
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Today marks the 45th anniversary of Anne Sexton’s suicide! RIP!
(9 November 1928 – 4 October 1974)
Don’t worry, i’ll turn cold so it will soon be soothed.
naaz, do you?
