<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345369" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Clothes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Put on a clean shirt<br>before you die, some Russian said.<br>Nothing with drool, please, <br>no egg spots, no blood, <br>no sweat, no sperm.<br>You want me clean, God, <br>so I'll try to comply.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hat I was married in, <br>will it do? <br>White, broad, fake flowers in a tiny array.<br>It's old-fashioned, as stylish as a bedbug, <br>but is suits to die in something nostalgic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I'll take<br>my painting shirt<br>washed over and over of course<br>spotted with every yellow kitchen I've painted.<br>God, you don't mind if I bring all my kitchens? <br>They hold the family laughter and the soup.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a bra<br>(need we mention it?) , <br>the padded black one that my lover demeaned<br>when I took it off.<br>He said, 'Where'd it all go? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I'll take<br>the maternity skirt of my ninth month, <br>a window for the love-belly<br>that let each baby pop out like and apple, <br>the water breaking in the restaurant, <br>making a noisy house I'd like to die in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For underpants I'll pick white cotton, <br>the briefs of my childhood, <br>for it was my mother's dictum<br>that nice girls wore only white cotton.<br>If my mother had lived to see it<br>she would have put a WANTED sign up in the post office<br>for the black, the red, the blue I've worn.<br>Still, it would be perfectly fine with me<br>to die like a nice girl<br>smelling of Clorox and Duz.<br>Being sixteen-in-the-pants<br>I would die full of questions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Sexton">Anne Sexton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345369" data-title="Clothes de Anne Sexton" data-description="Put on a clean shirt before you die, some Russian said. Nothing with drool, please, no egg spots, no blood, no sweat, no sperm. You want me clean, God, so I'll try to comply. The hat I was married in, will it do? White, broad, fake flowers i..."></div> </div> </div>

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