<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345511" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wifebeater</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There will be mud on the carpet tonight<br>and blood in the gravy as well.<br>The wifebeater is out,<br>the childbeater is out<br>eating soil and drinking bullets from a cup.<br>He strides back and forth<br>in front of my study window<br>chewing little red pieces of my heart.<br>His eyes flash like a birthday cake<br>and he makes bread out of rock.<br>Yesterday he was walking<br>like a man in the world.<br>He was upright and conservative<br>but somehow evasive, somehow contagious.<br>Yesterday he built me a country<br>and laid out a shadow where I could sleep<br>but today a coffin for the madonna and child,<br>today two women in baby clothes will be hamburg.<br>With a tongue like a razor he will kiss,<br>the mother, the child,<br>and we three will color the stars black<br>in memory of his mother<br>who kept him chained to the food tree<br>or turned him on and off like a water faucet<br>and made women through all these hazy years<br>the enemy with a heart of lies.<br>Tonight all the red dogs lie down in fear<br>and the wife and daughter knit into each other<br>until they are killed.</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=345511" data-title="The Wifebeater de Anne Sexton" data-description="There will be mud on the carpet tonight and blood in the gravy as well. The wifebeater is out, the childbeater is out eating soil and drinking bullets from a cup. He strides back and forth in front of my study window chewing little red pieces of m..."></div> </div> </div>

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