Quotation by Anne Sexton

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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

Anne Sexton (1928–1974), U.S. poet. "The Break."

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