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I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.

I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.

Anne Sexton
Life, Pain, Bars
Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

Anne Sexton
Pain, Ocean, Past
Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard, for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart and were screwed together. They will knit. And the other corpse, the fractured heart, I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.

Anne Sexton
Pain, Heart, Hair
Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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