But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.
- Anne Sexton, from Wanting to Die
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misterchu said:
Acute and accurate it seems.
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endlesshangover said:
Incredible poem. Oddly, I just made a post about finding an old copy of Anne Sexton’s Complete Poems that I thought I’d lost in a move.
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