"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh."
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Source: Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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