<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345505" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Room of My Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here,<br>in the room of my life<br>the objects keep changing.<br>Ashtrays to cry into,<br>the suffering brother of the wood walls,<br>the forty-eight keys of the typewriter<br>each an eyeball that is never shut,<br>the books, each a contestant in a beauty contest,<br>the black chair, a dog coffin made of Naugahyde,<br>the sockets on the wall<br>waiting like a cave of bees,<br>the gold rug<br>a conversation of heels and toes,<br>the fireplace <br>a knife waiting for someone to pick it up,<br>the sofa, exhausted with the exertion of a whore,<br>the phone<br>two flowers taking root in its crotch,<br>the doors<br>opening and closing like sea clams,<br>the lights <br>poking at me,<br>lighting up both the soil and the laugh.<br>The windows, <br>the starving windows<br>that drive the trees like nails into my heart.<br>Each day I feed the world out there<br>although birds explode<br>right and left.<br>I feed the world in here too, <br>offering the desk puppy biscuits.<br>However, nothing is just what it seems to be.<br>My objects dream and wear new costumes,<br>compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands<br>and the sea that bangs in my throat.</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=345505" data-title="The Room of My Life de Anne Sexton" data-description="Here, in the room of my life the objects keep changing. Ashtrays to cry into, the suffering brother of the wood walls, the forty-eight keys of the typewriter each an eyeball that is never shut, the books, each a contestant in a beauty contest, the..."></div> </div> </div>

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