“I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
“I wish I was dead,
And lay deep in the grave.
I've a pain in my head,
I wish I was dead.
In a coffin of lead—
With the Wise and the Brave—
I wish I was dead,
And lay deep in the grave.”
"Jean Francois", from Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches.
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In the thick of summer, hid in a clump of pine
And a jungle of grass and honey-suckle vine.
I who had loved him while he kept alive
Went only close enough to where he was
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