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Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

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
Giving
Cobwebs
Sheer
Skin
Skins
Listen
Open
Dark
Cobweb
Give
Scoop

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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
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