Nobel prize winning playwright Harold Pinter dies
by lucroe
Playwright, poet, essayist, actor, political activist, and Nobel prize in literature winner (2005), Harold Pinter passed away on Dec 25, 2008 at age 78 after struggling with esophageal cancer. Before passing he wrote a poem about his diagnosis,
I need to see my tumor dead
A tumor which forgets to die
But plans to murder me instead.
But I remember how to die
Though all my witnesses are dead.
But I remember what they said
Of tumors which would render them
As blind and dumb as they had been
Before the birth of that disease
Which brought the tumor into play.
The black cells will dry up and die
Or sing with joy and have their way.
They breed so quietly night and day,
You never know, they never say.
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