<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345473" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fallen Angels</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They come on to my clean<br>sheet of paper and leave a Rorschach blot.<br>They do not do this to be mean,<br>they do it to give me a sign<br>they want me, as Aubrey Beardsley once said,<br>to shove it around till something comes.<br>Clumsy as I am,<br>I do it.<br>For I am like them -<br>both saved and lost,<br>tumbling downward like Humpty Dumpty<br>off the alphabet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each morning I push them off my bed<br>and when they get in the salad<br>rolling in it like a dog,<br>I pick each one out<br>just the way my daughter<br>picks out the anchovies.<br>In May they dance on the jonquils,<br>wearing out their toes,<br>laughing like fish.<br>In November, the dread month,<br>they suck the childhood out of the berries<br>and turn them sour and inedible.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet they keep me company.<br>They wiggle up life.<br>They pass out their magic<br>like Assorted Lifesavers.<br>They go with me to the dentist<br>and protect me form the drill.<br>At the same time,<br>they go to class with me<br>and lie to my students.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O fallen angel,<br>the companion within me,<br>whisper something holy<br>before you pinch me<br>into the grave.</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=345473" data-title="The Fallen Angels de Anne Sexton" data-description="They come on to my clean sheet of paper and leave a Rorschach blot. They do not do this to be mean, they do it to give me a sign they want me, as Aubrey Beardsley once said, to shove it around till something comes. Clumsy as I am, I do it. For I a..."></div> </div> </div>

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