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| 5042. | The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Anne Sexton | | If you danced from midnight
to six A.M. who would understand?
The runaway boy
who chucks it all
to live on the Boston Common
on speed and salti... |
| 5043. | Rumpelstiltskin by Anne Sexton | | Inside many of us
is a small old man
who wants to get out.
No bigger than a two-year-old
whom you'd call lamb chop
yet this one is old and malfor... |
| 5044. | Rapunzel by Anne Sexton | | A woman
who loves a woman
is forever young.
The mentor
and the student
feed off each other.
Many a girl
had an old aunt
who locked her... |
| 5045. | For God While Sleeping by Anne Sexton | | Sleeping in fever, I am unfair
to know just who you are:
hung up like a pig on exhibit,
the delicate wrists,
the beard drooling blood and vinegar;... |
| 5046. | The Frog Prince by Anne Sexton | | Frau Doktor,
Mama Brundig,
take out your contacts,
remove your wig.
I write for you.
I entertain.
But frogs come out
of the sky like rain.
F... |
| 5047. | Admonitions to a Special Person by Anne Sexton | | Watch out for power,
for its avalanche can bury you,
snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain.
Watch out for hate,
it can open its mouth a... |
| 5048. | Said The Poet To The Analyst by Anne Sexton | | My business is words. Words are like labels,
or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
I confess I am only broken by the sources of things;
as if... |
| 5049. | Cripples And Other Stories by Anne Sexton | | My doctor, the comedian
I called you every time
and made you laugh yourself
when I wrote this silly rhyme...
Each time I give lectures
... |
| 5050. | The Poet Of Ignorance by Anne Sexton | | Perhaps the earth is floating,
I do not know.
Perhaps the stars are little paper cutups
made by some giant scissors,
I do not know.
Perhaps the m... |
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