<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Going Gone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over stone walls and barns,<br>miles from the black-eyed Susans,<br>over circus tents and moon rockets<br>you are going, going.<br>You who have inhabited me<br>in the deepest and most broken place,<br>are going, going.<br>An old woman calls up to you<br>from her deathbed deep in sores,<br>asking, 'What do you keep of her?'<br>She is the crone in the fables.<br>She is the fool at the supper<br>and you, sir, are the traveler.<br>Although you are in a hurry<br>you stop to open a small basket<br>and under layers of petticoats<br>you show her the tiger-striped eyes<br>that you have lately plucked,<br>you show her specialty, the lips,<br>those two small bundles,<br>you show her the two hands<br>that grip her fiercely,<br>one being mine, one being yours.<br>Torn right off at the wrist bone<br>when you started in your<br>impossible going, gone.<br>Then you place the basket<br>in the old woman's hollow lap<br>and as a last act she fondles<br>these artifacts like a child's head<br>and murmurs, 'Precious. Precious.'<br>And you are glad you have given<br>them to this one for she too<br>is making a trip.</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=345393" data-title="Going Gone de Anne Sexton" data-description="Over stone walls and barns, miles from the black-eyed Susans, over circus tents and moon rockets you are going, going. You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going. An old woman calls up to you from her deathbed..."></div> </div> </div>

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