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What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

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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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Medicine
Green
Sleep
White
Two
Pink
Orange

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O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.
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Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
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And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.
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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is the waves fold over each other they are in love with themselves sleeping in their own skin and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.
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My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.
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