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Quotation by Anne Sexton
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Anne Sexton (784)Additional Sources
"45 Mercy Street""A Cripples and Other Stories""A Curse Against Elegies""Admonitions to a Special Person""After Auschwitz"Related Subjects
life (8) love (8) money (7) marriage (6) contentment (6) pleasures (5) joy (5) childhood (4) misery (4) youth (4)
Every time I get happy
the Nana-hex comes through.
Birds turn into plumber's tools,
a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
a boat turns into a corpse....
the Nana-hex comes through.
Birds turn into plumber's tools,
a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
a boat turns into a corpse....
Surprise me with a
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