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You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late August, I speed through the antiseptic tunnel where the moving dead still talk of pushing their bones against the thrust of cure. And I am queen of this summer hotel or the laughing bee on a stalk of death. We stand in broken lines and wait while they unlock the doors and count us at the frozen gates of dinner. The shibboleth is spoken and we move to gravy in our smock of smiles. We c..
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Anne Sexton |
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d25c608
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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Anne Sexton |
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646318c
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Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
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Anne Sexton |
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ef43395
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I am alive when your fingers are.
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Anne Sexton |
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cd83721
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As for me, I am a watercolor.I wash off.
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Anne Sexton |
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7071fa8
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You said the anger would come backjust as the love did.
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Anne Sexton |
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0f0a68e
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
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Anne Sexton |
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090ebbf
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The tongue, the Chinese say,without drawing blood.
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Anne Sexton |
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2745dbb
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I am stuffing your mouth with youryou vomit them out upon my face.
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Anne Sexton |
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52bba6e
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There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.
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Anne Sexton |
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2b0bfaf
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God is only mocked by believers.
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Anne Sexton |
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61236e1
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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Anne Sexton |
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8f67367
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We are all writing God's poem.
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Anne Sexton |
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781f25a
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Even so, I must admire your skill.You are so gracefully insane.
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Anne Sexton |
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8d6e8c5
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I rot on the wall, my ownDorian Gray.
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Anne Sexton |
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802cc2f
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I imitatethat I do not own.
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Anne Sexton |
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b5c8258
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All who love have lied.
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Anne Sexton |
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23a2b9a
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Dearest,nothing has happened.
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Anne Sexton |
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e4d97ed
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In a dream you are never eighty.
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Anne Sexton |
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c6fe7c1
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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
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Anne Sexton |
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dd902ac
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I grow old on my bitterness.
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Anne Sexton |
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d697531
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Love! That red disease --
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Anne Sexton |
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1072dbe
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Catch me. I'm your disease.
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Anne Sexton |