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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
Anne Sexton
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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far.
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It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.
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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
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I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.
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I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.
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It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.
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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
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