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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

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
Writer
Chance
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Fool

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I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
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Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
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I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.
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The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
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The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.
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Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.
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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
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