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• I have a black look I do not
  like. It is a mask I try on.
  I migrate toward it and its frog
  sits on my lips and defecates.

  Anne Sexton

  Anger, Black, Trying

  Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”

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• Despite my asbestos gloves,
  the cough is filling me with black,
  and a red powder seeps through my veins.

  Anne Sexton

  Fire, Black, Asbestos

  Anne Sexton, “Love Letter Written In A Burning BuILDIng”

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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!

  Anne Sexton

  Would Be, Eating, Chickens

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• I remember the stink of the liverwurst.
  How I was put on a platter and laid
  between the mayonnaise and the bacon.
  The rhythm of the refrigerator
  had been disturbed.

  Anne Sexton

  Mayonnaise, Remember, Eating

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My sleeping pill is white.
  It is a splendid pearl;
  it floats me out of myself,
  my stung skin as alien
  as a loose bolt of cloth.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, White, Skins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Boredom, Mind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Children, Home

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
  that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Husband, Divorce

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Twists, Sailor

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Oh thumb,
  I want a drink
  it is dark,
  where are the big people,
  when will I get there...?

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, People, Childhood

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• it
  was my first doll that water went
  into and water came out of much
  earlier it was the diaper I wore
  and the dirt thereof and my
  mother hating me for it

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Hate, Water

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• Man
  is a bird full of mud,
  I say aloud.
  And death looks on with a casual eye
  and scratches his anus.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Men, Bird

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I would like to think that no one would die anymore
  if we all believed in daisies
  but the worms know better, don't they?
  They slide into the ear of a corpse
  and listen to his great sigh.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Ears, Slides

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

  Anne Sexton

  Lilies, Born, Mailboxes

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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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.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, Divorce

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
  pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
  and holding them, clicking them
  in thumb and forefinger,
  the indent of twenty-five years,
  like a tiny rip leaving its mark.

  Anne Sexton

  Rip, Divorce, Years

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• stop the darkness and its amputations
  and find the real McCoy
  in the private holiness
  of my hands.

  Anne Sexton

  Real, Hands, Darkness

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Dead drunk
  is the term I think of,
  insensible,
  neither cool nor warm,
  without a head or a foot.
  To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.

  Anne Sexton

  Drinking, Thinking, Feet

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• There is a good look that I wear
  like a blood clot. I have
  sewn it over my left breast.
  I have made a vocation of it.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Blood, Looks

  Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”

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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.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Heart, Sleep

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Inside many of us
  is a small old man
  who wants to get out.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Age, Want

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see myself as one would see another.
  I have been cut in two.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Two, Mental Illness

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Afterlife, Heaven

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of course
  the New Testament is very small.
  Its mouth opens four times
  as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
  yet somehow man-made.

  Anne Sexton

  Bible, Men, Monsters

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Thinking, Perfect

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