<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345462" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Death King</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hired a carpenter<br>to build my coffin<br>and last night I lay in it,<br>braced by a pillow,<br>sniffing the wood,<br>letting the old king<br>breathe on me,<br>thinking of my poor murdered body,<br>murdered by time,<br>waiting to turn stiff as a field marshal,<br>letting the silence dishonor me,<br>remembering that I'll never cough again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death will be the end of fear<br>and the fear of dying,<br>fear like a dog stuffed in my mouth,<br>feal like dung stuffed up my nose,<br>fear where water turns into steel,<br>fear as my breast flies into the Disposall,<br>fear as flies tremble in my ear,<br>fear as the sun ignites in my lap,<br>fear as night can't be shut off,<br>and the dawn, my habitual dawn,<br>is locked up forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fear and a coffin to lie in<br>like a dead potato.<br>Even then I will dance in my dire clothes,<br>a crematory flight,<br>blinding my hair and my fingers,<br>wounding God with his blue face,<br>his tyranny, his absolute kingdom,<br>with my aphrodisiac.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Sexton">Anne Sexton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345462" data-title="The Death King de Anne Sexton" data-description="I hired a carpenter to build my coffin and last night I lay in it, braced by a pillow, sniffing the wood, letting the old king breathe on me, thinking of my poor murdered body, murdered by time, waiting to turn stiff as a field marshal, letting th..."></div> </div> </div>

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