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Never understanding

But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.

Anne Sexton, Wanting to Die


Thankfully, I want most to know ‘why build’.

Thief —
how did you crawl into,

crawl down alone
into the death I wanted so badly and for so long,

— Anne Sexton, Sylvia’s Death