I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss. I am pushi… - Anne Sexton

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I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss.
I am pushing knives through the hands
that created two into one.
Our hands do not bleed at this, they lie still in their dishonor.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1967 for Live or Die.

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I did not ask about the gate or the closet.
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and examined for flaws.

I did not know
that my bones,
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would not splinter.

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