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Come, my pretender, my fritter,
my bubbler, my chicken biddy!
Oh succulent one,
it is but one turn in the road
and I would be a cannibal!
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Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone.
Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
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Rocks crumble, make new forms,
oceans move the continents,
mountains rise up and down like ghosts
yet all is natural, all is change.
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Then God spoke to me and said:
People say only good things about Christmas.
If they want to say something bad,
they whisper.
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I raise my pelvis to God
so that it may know the truth of how
flowers smash through the long winter.
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In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.
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Somebody who should have been born
is gone.
Yes, woman, such logic will lead
to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
you coward... this baby that I bleed.
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The heart,
this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
this ultimate signature of the me, the start
of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.
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Unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.
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I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
and stuff me so full of our infected child
that I turn invisible, but married,
at last.
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Stop the darkness and its amputations
and find the real McCoy
in the private holiness
of my hands.
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All the oxygen of the world was in them.
All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.
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Blind with love, my daughter
has cried nightly for horses,
those long-necked marchers and churners
that she has mastered, any and all,
reigning them in like a circus hand....
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If you meet a cross-eyed person
you must plunge into the grass,
alongside the chilly ants,
fish through the green fingernails
and come up with the four-leaf clover....
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The stars are pears
that no one can reach,
even for a wedding.
Perhaps for a death.
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My objects dream and wear new costumes,
compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands
and the sea that bangs in my throat.
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Loving me with my shoes off
means loving my long brown legs,
sweet dears, as good as spoons;
and my feet, those two children
let out to play naked.
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Maybe, although my heart
is a kitten of butter,
I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.
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The sky breaks.
It sags and breathes upon my face.
in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies
The world is full of enemies.
There is no safe place.
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Home is my Bethlehem,
my succoring shelter,
my mental hospital,
my wife, my dam,
my husband, my sir,
my womb, my skull.
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There is an animal inside me,
clutching fast to my heart,
a huge crab.
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The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.
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Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,
whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle....
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Nature is full of teeth
that come in one by one, then
decay,
fall out.
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So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift.
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Anne Sexton
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Born:
November 9, 1928
Died:
October 4, 1974
(aged 45)
Bio:
Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die.
Known for:
Live or Die (1966)
The Complete Poems
The awful rowing toward God
To Bedlam and part way back (1960)
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
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