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I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

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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Dismantled
Persons
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Imperfection
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Collections
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Individuality

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Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.
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To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
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My mouth blooms like a cut.
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Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.
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Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
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