<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345370" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cockroach</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roach, foulest of creatures, <br>who attacks with yellow teeth<br>and an army of cousins big as shoes, <br>you are lumps of coal that are mechanized<br>and when I turn on the light you scuttle<br>into the corners and there is this hiss upon the land.<br>Yet I know you are only the common angel<br>turned into, by way of enchantment, the ugliest.<br>Your uncle was made into an apple.<br>Your aunt was made into a Siamese cat, <br>all the rest were made into butterflies<br>but because you lied to God outrightly-<br>told him that all things on earth were in order-<br>He turned his wrath upon you and said, <br>I will make you the most loathsome, <br>I will make you into God's lie, <br>and never will a little girl fondle you<br>or hold your dark wings cupped in her palm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But that was not true. Once in New Orleans<br>with a group of students a roach fled across<br>the floor and I shrieked and she picked it up<br>in her hands and held it from my fear for one hour.<br>And held it like a diamond ring that should not escape.<br>These days even the devil is getting overturned<br>and held up to the light like a glass of water.</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=345370" data-title="Cockroach de Anne Sexton" data-description="Roach, foulest of creatures, who attacks with yellow teeth and an army of cousins big as shoes, you are lumps of coal that are mechanized and when I turn on the light you scuttle into the corners and there is this hiss upon the land. Yet I know ..."></div> </div> </div>

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