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SUFFERING by ALBERT EHRENSTEIN

First Line: HOW AM I HITCHED
Last Line: MY HEAD WAS OF BLACK EARTH.
Subject(s): AGING;

How am I hitched
To the coal-wagon of my mourning!
Loathsome as a spider
Time creeps over me.
My hair falls out,
My head greys, like a field
Where the last reaper
Swings his sickle.
Sleep darkens about my limbs.
Already in dreams I have died,
Grass sprang out of my skull,
My head was of black earth.



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