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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

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
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Watercolors
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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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Poetry to me is prayer.
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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
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No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
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women are born twice.
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I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
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After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.
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If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover.
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What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.
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I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.
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Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.
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The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.
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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
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You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going
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Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.
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One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is Whatever you do, don't be boring.
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