I placed a phial of sulphuric acid on the table beside my bed.

In the morning it was still there.

It had not killed me.

They have forbidden me to drown myself.

Why!

I do not know why? In vain I ask the air and the trees why I should not

drown myself? They do not see any reason why.

And yet I long to be free, free as the young birds, as the very

youngest of them.

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