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“ ”I am so tired of that old suffering.
Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1967 for Live or Die.
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You who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going
But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.
Twice I have so simply declared myself,
have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,
have taken on his craft, his magic.
They could not listen.
They could not stop.
What they did was the death dance.
What they did would do them in.