<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345460" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dead Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After I wrote this, a friend scrawled on this page, “Yes.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I said, merely to myself, “I wish it could be for a <br>different seizure—as with Molly Bloom and her ‘and <br>yes I said yes I will Yes.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not a turtle <br>hiding in its little green shell. <br>It is not a stone <br>to pick up and put under your black wing. <br>It is not a subway car that is obsolete. <br>It is not a lump of coal that you could light. <br>It is a dead heart. <br>It is inside of me. <br>It is a stranger <br>yet once it was agreeable, <br>opening and closing like a clam. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What it has cost me you can’t imagine, <br>shrinks, priests, lovers, children, husbands, <br>friends and all the lot. <br>An expensive thing it was to keep going. <br>It gave back too. <br>Don’t deny it! <br>I half wonder if April would bring it back to life? <br>A tulip? The first bud? <br>But those are just musings on my part, <br>the pity one has when one looks at a cadaver. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How did it die? <br>I called it EVIL. <br>I said to it, your poems stink like vomit. <br>I didn’t stay to hear the last sentence. <br>It died on the word EVIL. <br>It did it with my tongue. <br>The tongue, the Chinese say, <br>is like a sharp knife: <br>it kills <br>without drawing blood.</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=345460" data-title="The Dead Heart de Anne Sexton" data-description="After I wrote this, a friend scrawled on this page, “Yes.” And I said, merely to myself, “I wish it could be for a different seizure—as with Molly Bloom and her ‘and yes I said yes I will Yes.' It is not a turtle hiding in its litt..."></div> </div> </div>

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