The Art Divas / Divas of Verse
Blog of Rabih Alameddine
Friday, May 15, 2020
The Heart asks Pleasure by Emily Dickinson
The Heart asks Pleasure
The Heart asks Pleasure - first -
And then - Excuse from Pain -
And then - those little Anodynes
That deaden suffering –
And then - to go to sleep -
And then - if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor
The privilege to die -
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