And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone b… - Anne Sexton

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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

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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Alternative Names: Anne Gray Harvey

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Fact: death too is in the egg. Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat.
And tomorrow the O.R. Only the summer was sweet.

For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.

Oh, all right, I say,
I'll save myself.

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