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briandmyers  ·  3062 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If Any One of You Knows Someone Who Knows Stephen King - _refugee_ blog

My favourite poem ever is by Stephen Crane, and I'm not even sure why I like it so much - "In The Desert" :

  In the desert

I saw a creature, naked, bestial,

Who, squatting upon the ground,

Held his heart in his hands,

And ate of it.

I said, “Is it good, friend?”

“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

  “But I like it

“Because it is bitter,

“And because it is my heart.”