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My life
has appeared unclothed in court,
detail by detail,
death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
and I was shamed at the verdict....
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And within the house
ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
fury is lapping the walls,
dishes crack on the shelves,
a strangler needs my throat,
the daughter has ceased to eat anything....
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I will be steel!
I will build a steel bridge over my need!
I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
But my future is a secret.
It is as shy as a mole.
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What a lay me down this is
with two pink, two orange,
two green, two white goodnights.
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You must be a poet,
a lady of evil luck
desiring to be what you are not,
longing to be
what you can only visit.
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His awful skin Stretched out by some tradesman is like my skin, here between my fingers, a kind of webbing, a kind of frog.
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My business is words. Words are like labels,
or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
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But even in a telephone booth
evil can seep out of the receiver
and we must cover it with a mattress,
and then tear it from its roots
and bury it,
bury it.
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If the doctors cure
then the sun sees it.
If the doctors kill
then the earth hides it.
The doctors should fear arrogance
more than cardiac arrest.
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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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