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Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

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
Psychiatry
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Dirty
Mirrors

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Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.
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My mouth blooms like a cut.
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
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This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.
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