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  • The indignity of it!-
    With everything blooming above me,
    Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses,
    Whole fields lovely and inviolate,-
    Me down in the fetor of weeds,
    Crawling on all fours,
    Alive, in a slippery grave.

    Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.71, Anchor