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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Hard
Life
Ears
Creativity
Close
Listen
Inspirational
Beautiful
Soul

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bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.
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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
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