In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because…

Sylvia Plath
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In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.184, Anchor
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