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The My Lai soldier lifts me up again and again and lowers me down with the other dead women and babies...
By Anne Sexton
the cement wall of the clumsy calendar I live in, my life, and its hauled up notebooks.
By Anne Sexton
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
By Anne Sexton
Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.
By Anne Sexton
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it....
By Anne Sexton
Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
By Anne Sexton
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,...
By Anne Sexton
Now that you are laid out, useless as a blind dog, now that you no longer lurk, the song rings in my head.
By Anne Sexton
Now they are together like strangers in a two-seater outhouse, eating and squatting together.
By Anne Sexton
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
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No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
By Anne Sexton
never again would she lose her ball, that moon, that Krishna hair, that blind poppy, that innocent globe, that madonna womb.
By Anne Sexton
Max, surely you'll meet me at the Ritz at five. Hurry up somebody's dead we're still alive.
By Anne Sexton
Listen. We must all stop dying in the little ways, in the craters of hate, in the potholes of indifference....
By Anne Sexton