My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was … - Anne Sexton

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I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.

Anne Sexton

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.

Court, Details, Life, Regret, Shamed, Witness

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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.

Believe, Poem, Self, Writing

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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