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This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

Anne Sexton
Stars, Poetry, World
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.