/lit/ - Literature

'Peig', by Peig Sayers

It's not that it's badly written, exactly. At least not in Irish, I guess in English it probably sounds sort of clunky. Judge for yourself.
>I am an old woman now, with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge. I have experienced much ease and much hardship from the day I was born until this very day. Had I known in advance half, or even one-third, of what the future had in store for me, my heart wouldn't have been as happy or as courageous it was in the beginning of my days.

But everything about it is just so dreary. We get it, your family's dead. Stop putting on the poor mouth.