I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d
rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
Miss Quentin in The Sound and the Fury
(For graves have learned that woman-head,
To be to more than one a bed)
John Donne, ‘The Relic’
An’ de old woman gib her a ball of cotton, an’ tell
tell her to t’row it back of her, but not to look back,
whatever she hear.
Pamela Colman Smith, Annancy Stories