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The Heaviest Stone: The Suicide of Virginia Woolf
January 8, 2012
She looks out at the waters
So depthless and cold
This world wasn’t worth living in
So she picked up the heaviest stone
Her eyes had turned empty
Long, long ago
She was just kissing the inevitable
She put in her pocket the heaviest stone
She drifted into the deep
As if already a ghost
She didn’t have time to hold her breath
Courtesy of the heaviest stone
Intricate memories played in her head
Of the abandoners who left her alone
She inhaled the drink of death, and held on tightly
To her only friend, the heaviest stone.
© Rebecca S., Coventry, RI
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I love this poem! but i had no idea that Woolf did that. I read her book Mrs. Dalloway and it was very confusing and sad, but I still never got a vibe like that from her, like, say, Sylvia Plath. how horrible. but the poem's good, one of mi faves so far
