'Last Letter' - by Ted Hughes

[opheliablue]

Channel 4 News Item

New Statesmen - drafts of poem and some stupid comments - prize for the best! "A selfish, self-involved, self-indulgent navel-gazer with daddy issues offed herself leaving her kids without a mother because the world revolved around her and it wasn't paying enough attention for her liking. Really, is there anything more to

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[retrospektives]

This is so sad, especially the part about the phone booth and Primrose Hill.. "the banks of dirty sugar"...

Thanks for sharing.

[opheliablue]

You're welcome.

Yes, it's heartbreaking. I can't read the lines:
"In your long black coat,

With your plait coiled up at the back of your hair

You walk unable to move, or wake, and are

Already nobody walking.

Walking by the railings under Primrose Hill

Towards the phone booth that can never be reached.

Before midnight. After midnight. Again.

Again. Again. And, near dawn, again..." without crying...

[sunflower_pixie]

Missing you and wishing you were still here with us. ♥

[retrospektives]

Thinking of you, Morney...your books are still safe and sitting on my shelf. I remember how much you cared when I broke my hand years ago. I still laugh about the poems, and making up lines from The Bell Jar. Pretending to be T.S. Eliot. You'd be pleased to know I still do stupid things like that. I wish I could know you now, the person I am today. I miss you xxxx