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The Speaker is grappling with their own mortality
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It wasn't for long, I wasn't there long. But drinking bitter black coffee I catch that medicinal smell in a cloud of ancient tobacco and something touches me in that still place and a wound from two years ago opens like a cadaver and a long buried shame roars its foul decaying grief.
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Nothing can extinguish my anger.
And nothing can restore my faith.
This is not a world in which I wish to live.
Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis, in The Complete Plays of Sarah Kane, ed. David Greig, Methuen Drama, 2001, pp.209-210.
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