Anne Sexton

Newton, Massachusetts

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Newton, Massachusetts

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21.

As It Was Written

★ ★

Earth, earth,
riding your merry-go-round
toward extinction,
right to the roots,
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22.

Angels Of The Love Affair

★ ★

'Angels of the love affair, do you know that other,
the dark one, that other me? '

1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALS
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23.

All My Pretty Ones

★ ★

Father, this year's jinx rides us apart
where you followed our mother to her cold slumber;
a second shock boiling its stone to your heart,
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24.

Her Kind

★ ★

have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
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25.

Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women

★ ★

(from a song)

Perhaps I was born kneeling,
born coughing on the long winter,
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26.

An Obsessive Combination Of Onotological Inscape, Trickery And Love

★ ★

Busy, with an idea for a code, I write
signals hurrying from left to right,
or right to left, by obscure routes,
for my own reasons; taking a word like writes
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27.

August 8th

★ ★

Listen here. I've never played it safe
in spite of what the critics say.
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28.

Consorting With Angels

★ ★

I was tired of being a woman,
tired of the spoons and the post,
tired of my mouth and my breasts,
tired of the cosmetics and the silks.
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29.

Clothes

★ ★

Put on a clean shirt
before you die, some Russian said.
Nothing with drool, please,
no egg spots, no blood,
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30.

Ghosts

★ ★

Some ghosts are women,
neither abstract nor pale,
their breasts as limp as killed fish.
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