God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became … - Anne Sexton

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Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

Anne Sexton

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

Body, Despair, Latrine, Sandpaper, Sea

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Poems aren't postcards to send home.

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There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

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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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If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the love surrounding you like batter. . . Blame it on God perhaps? He of the first opening that pushed us all into our first mistakes? No, I'll blame it on Man For Man is God and man is eating the earth up like a candy bar and not one of them can be left alone with the ocean for it is known he will gulp it all down. The stars (possibly) are safe. At least for the moment. The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

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

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