<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345429" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Red Roses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tommy is three and when he's bad<br>his mother dances with him.<br>She puts on the record,<br>'Red Roses for a Blue Lady'<br>and throws him across the room.<br>Mind you,<br>she never laid a hand on him.<br>He gets red roses in different places,<br>the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river,<br>the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow,<br>the arm like a diamond had bitten it,<br>the leg, twisted like a licorice stick,<br>all the dance they did together,<br>Blue Lady and Tommy.<br>You fell, she said, just remember you fell.<br>I fell, is all he told the doctors<br>in the big hospital. A nice lady came<br>and asked him questions but because<br>he didn't want to be sent away he said, I fell.<br>He never said anything else although he could talk fine.<br>He never told about the music<br>or how she'd sing and shout<br>holding him up and throwing him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He pretends he is her ball.<br>He tries to fold up and bounce<br>but he squashes like fruit.<br>For he loves Blue Lady and the spots<br>of red roses he gives her</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=345429" data-title="Red Roses de Anne Sexton" data-description="Tommy is three and when he's bad his mother dances with him. She puts on the record, 'Red Roses for a Blue Lady' and throws him across the room. Mind you, she never laid a hand on him. He gets red roses in different places, the head, that time he ..."></div> </div> </div>

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