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Quotation by Anne Sexton
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for it is dark,
as dark as the leathery dead
and I have lost my green Ford,
my house in the suburbs,
two little kids
sucked up like pollen by the bee in me....
as dark as the leathery dead
and I have lost my green Ford,
my house in the suburbs,
two little kids
sucked up like pollen by the bee in me....
Anne Sexton (1928–1974), U.S. poet. "45 Mercy Street."
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