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Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

Anne Sexton
God, Jesus, Order
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.

Anne Sexton
God, Jesus, Kissing

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

Anne Sexton
Christmas, God, Jesus
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.

Anne Sexton
Beautiful, God, Jesus
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

Anne Sexton
God, Jesus, Night

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