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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
"To Be Asked for a Kiss" by Jericho Brown
Read Jericho Brown's To Be Asked for a Kiss: "Suicide’s Note" by Langston Hughes: "The calm, / Cool face of the river / Asked me for a kiss."
The desire to be dead and the desire not to be alive and the desire to kill oneself are three different desires. The desire to die is not the desire to be dead. Anyone who has ever [...]
Chrysanthemum: An Anthology
Poetry
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