<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345490" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gold Key</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The speaker in this case<br>is a middle-aged witch, me-<br>tangled on my two great arms,<br>my face in a book<br>and my mouth wide,<br>ready to tell you a story or two.<br>I have come to remind you,<br>all of you:<br>Alice, Samuel, Kurt, Eleanor,<br>Jane, Brian, Maryel,<br>all of you draw near.<br>Alice,<br>at fifty-six do you remember?<br>Do you remember when you<br>were read to as a child?<br>Samuel,<br>at twenty-two have you forgotten?<br>Forgotten the ten P.M. dreams<br>where the wicked king<br>went up in smoke?<br>Are you comatose?<br>Are you undersea?<br>Attention,<br>my dears,<br>let me present to you this boy.<br>He is sixteen and he wants some answers.<br>He is each of us.<br>I mean you.<br>I mean me.<br>It is not enough to read Hesse <br>and drink clam chowder<br>we must have the answers.<br>The boy has found a gold key<br>and he is looking for what it will open.<br>This boy!<br>Upon finding a string<br>he would look for a harp.<br>Therefore he holds the key tightly.<br>Its secrets whimper<br>like a dog in heat.<br>He turns the key.<br>Presto!<br>It opens this book of odd tales <br>which transform the Brothers Grimm.<br>Transform?<br>As if an enlarged paper clip<br>could be a piece of sculpture.<br>(And it could.)</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=345490" data-title="The Gold Key de Anne Sexton" data-description="The speaker in this case is a middle-aged witch, me- tangled on my two great arms, my face in a book and my mouth wide, ready to tell you a story or two. I have come to remind you, all of you: Alice, Samuel, Kurt, Eleanor, Jane, Brian, Maryel, all..."></div> </div> </div>

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