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A week after my father died
suddenly I understood
his fondness for me was safe — nothing
could touch it.... I suddenly thought, with amazement, he will always
love me now, and I laughed — he was dead, dead!


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She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

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I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.

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I am doing something I learned early to do, I am
paying attention to small beauties,
whatever I have — as if it were our duty
to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.


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There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

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I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

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Sharon Olds

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Born: November 19, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Sharon Olds is an American poet.
Known for:
  1. Stag's Leap (2012)
  2. Satan says (1980)
  3. The gold cell (1987)
  4. The Dead and the Living (1984)
  5. Strike sparks (2004)

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