¹⁸ “ ‘Why did you take me out of the womb?
I wish I had breathed my last breath
before anyone had laid eyes on me.
¹⁹ Then it would be as if I had never existed,
as if I had been carried from the womb to the tomb.

²⁰ “ ‘Isn’t my life short enough?
So stop ⌞this⌟, and leave me alone.
Let me smile a little