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1830–1886

REAL.

Emily Dickinson

I like a look of agony, Because I know it‘ s true; Men do not sham convulsion, Nor simulate a throe.

The eyes glaze once, and that is death. Impossible to feign The beads upon the forehead By homely anguish strung.

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