Real

XII. REAL.

I like a look of agony Because I know it 's true ; Men do not sham convulsion, Nor simulate a throe. The eyes gaze once, and that is death. Impossible to feign The beads upon the forehead By homely anguish strung.

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
Troubled about many things	The Funeral

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