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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live August 17th by Anne Sexton Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Take some time to attend to your health. Surely I will be disquieted by the hospital, that body zone-- bodies wrapped in elastic bands, bodies cased in wood or used like telephones, bodies crucified up onto their crutches, bodies wearing rubber bags between their legs, bodies vomiting up their juice like detergent, Here in this house there are other bodies. Whenever I see a six-year-old swimming in our aqua pool a voice inside me says what can't be told... Ha, someday you'll be old and withered and tubes will be in your nose drinking up your dinner. Someday you'll go backward. You'll close up like a shoebox and you'll be cursed as you push into death feet first. Here in the hospital, I say, that is not my body, not my body. I am not here for the doctors to read like a recipe. No. I am a daisy girl blowing in the wind like a piece of sun. On ward 7 there are daisies, all butter and pearl but beside a blind man who can only eat up the petals and count to ten. The nurses skip rope around him and shiver as his eyes wiggle like mercury and then they dance from patient to patient to patient throwing up little paper medicine cups and playing catch with vials of dope as they wait for new accidents. Bodies made of synthetics. Bodies swaddled like dolls whom I visit and cajole and all they do is hum like computers doing up our taxes, dollar by dollar. Each body is in its bunker. The surgeon applies his gum. Each body is fitted quickly into its ice-cream pack and then stitched up again for the long voyage back. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Anne Sexton 45 Mercy Street Admonitions To A Special Person After Auschwitz Again And Again And Again And One For My Dame Angels Of The Love Affair Anna Who Was Mad An Obsessive Combination Of Onotologic As It Was Written August 17th August 8th A Curse Against Elegies A Story For Rose On The Midnight Fligh Baby Picture Barefoot Bat Bayonet Briar Rose Sleeping Beauty Buying The Whore Christmas Eve Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild Wild W Cinderella Clothes Cockroach Consorting With Angels Courage Cripples And Other Stories Crossing The Atlantic Daddy Warbucks Demon Despair Doctors Doors Doors Doors Dreaming The Breasts Earthworm Elegy In The Classroom Elizabeth Gone End Middle Beginning Flee On Your Donkey For God While Sleeping For Johnny Pole On The Forgotten Beach For John Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Fu Frenzy For My Lover Returning To His Wife For The Year Of The Insane Ghosts Gods Going Gone Her Kind Hornet Housewife Hurry Up Please Its Time In Excelsis In The Deep Museum It Is A Spring Afternoon I Remember Just Once Killing The Love Knee Song Lessons In Hunger Live Locked Doors Love Letter Written In A Burning Build Lullaby More Than Myself Mr Mine Music Swims Back To Me My Friend My Friend Noon Walk On The Asylum Lawn Oh Old Portrait Of An Old Woman On The Colleg Raccoon Rapunzel Red Roses Rowing Rumpelstiltskin Said The Poet To The Analyst Small Wire Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Some Foreign Letters Suicide Note Sylvias Death That Day The Abortion The Addict The Ambition Bird The Angel Food Dogs The Assassin The Bells The Author Of The Jesus Papers Speaks The Balance Wheel The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator The Big Boots Of Pain The Big Heart The Black Art The Break The Break Away The Breast The Children The Child Bearers The Civil War The Consecrating Mother The Dead Heart The Death Baby The Death King The Division Of Parts The Doctor Of The Heart The Double Image The Earth The Earth Falls Down The Errand The Evil Eye The Evil Seekers The Exorcists The Expatriates The Fallen Angels The Firebombers The Frog Prince The Fury Of Abandonment The Fury Of Beautiful Bones The Fury Of Cocks The Fury Of Cooks The Fury Of Earth The Fury Of Flowers And Worms The Fury Of Gods Good-bye The Fury Of Gods Goodbye The Fury Of Guitars And Sopranos The Fury Of Hating Eyes The Fury Of Jewels And Coal The Fury Of Overshoes The Fury Of Rainstorms The Fury Of Sundays The Fury Of Sunrises The Fury Of Sunsets The Gold Key The Interrogation Of The Man Of Many H The Inventory Of Goodbye The Kiss The Legend Of The One-Eyed Man The Lost Ingredient The Moss Of His Skin The Nude Swim The Other The Play The Poet Of Ignorance The Red Dance The Room Of My Life The Stand-Ins The Starry Night The Touch The Truth The Dead Know The Twelve Dancing Princesses The Wedding Ring Dance The Wifebeater The Witchs Life To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Tri Unknown Girl In A Maternity Ward Us Wallflower Wanting To Die When Man Enters Woman Where It Was At Back Then With Mercy For The Greedy Words Young You Doctor Martin

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