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I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

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
Pay
Stale
Drink
Neighbors
Hair
Yellow
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Called
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Hope
Debt
Debts
Write
Lips
Vacuums
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Vacuum

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