<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345443" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ambition Bird</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it has come to this<br>insomnia at 3:15 A.M., <br>the clock tolling its engine </div><div style="margin:10px 0">like a frog following <br>a sundial yet having an electric <br>seizure at the quarter hour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The business of words keeps me awake. <br>I am drinking cocoa, <br>that warm brown mama. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would like a simple life <br>yet all night I am laying <br>poems away in a long box. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is my immortality box, <br>my lay-away plan, <br>my coffin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All night dark wings <br>flopping in my heart. <br>Each an ambition bird. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bird wants to be dropped <br>from a high place like Tallahatchie Bridge. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wants to light a kitchen match <br>and immolate himself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo <br>anc dome out painted on a ceiling. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wants to pierce the hornet’s nest <br>and come out with a long godhead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wants to take bread and wine <br>and bring forth a man happily floating in the Caribbean. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wants to be pressed out like a key <br>so he can unlock the Magi. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wants to take leave among strangers <br>passing out bits of his heart like hors d’oeuvres. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wants to die changing his clothes <br>and bolt for the sun like a diamond. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wants, I want. <br>Dear God, wouldn’t it be <br>good enough to just drink cocoa? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I must get a new bird <br>and a new immortality box. <br>There is folly enough inside this one.</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=345443" data-title="The Ambition Bird de Anne Sexton" data-description="So it has come to this insomnia at 3:15 A.M., the clock tolling its engine like a frog following a sundial yet having an electric seizure at the quarter hour. The business of words keeps me awake. I am drinking cocoa, that warm brown mama..."></div> </div> </div>

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