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Anne Sexton

This is how
I want to die:

into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from my life with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.

— Anne Sexton, from “The Starry Night” Anne Sexton: The Last Summer. (St. Martin’s Press; 1st edition November 25, 2000)

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