Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead…

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

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B 37 “Speech of a suicide composed shortly before the act.”

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