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I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

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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Simple
Away
Night
Long
Would
Laying
Life
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Boxes

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And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, My need is more desperate! and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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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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The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.
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sorrow is easier than guilt.
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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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I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
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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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When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.
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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
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I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
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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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And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself
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Love your self's self where it lives.
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