<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345430" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ringing the Bells</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this is the way they ring<br>the bells in Bedlam<br>and this is the bell-lady<br>who comes each Tuesday morning <br>to give us a music lesson<br>and because the attendants make you go<br>and because we mind by instinct,<br>like bees caught in the wrong hive,<br>we are the circle of crazy ladies<br>who sit in the lounge of the mental house<br>and smile at the smiling woman<br>who passes us each a bell,<br>who points at my hand<br>that holds my bell, E flat,<br>and this is the gray dress next to me<br>who grumbles as if it were special<br>to be old, to be old,<br>and this is the small hunched squirrel girl<br>on the other side of me<br>who picks at the hairs over her lip,<br>who picks at the hairs over her lip all day,<br>and this is how the bells really sound,<br>as untroubled and clean<br>as a workable kitchen,<br>and this is always my bell responding<br>to my hand that responds to the lady<br>who points at me, E flat;<br>and although we are not better for it,<br>they tell you to go. And you do.</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=345430" data-title="Ringing the Bells de Anne Sexton" data-description="And this is the way they ring the bells in Bedlam and this is the bell-lady who comes each Tuesday morning to give us a music lesson and because the attendants make you go and because we mind by instinct, like bees caught in the wrong hive, we ar..."></div> </div> </div>

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