<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345517" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wallflower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come friend, <br>I have an old story to tell you—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen.<br>Sit down beside me and listen.<br>My face is red with sorrow <br>and my breasts are made of straw.<br>I sit in the ladder-back chair<br>in a corner of the polished stage.<br>I have forgiven all the old actors for dying.<br>A new one comes on with the same lines,<br>like large white growths, in his mouth.<br>The dancers come on from the wings,<br>perfectly mated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look up. The ceiling is pearly.<br>My thighs press, knotting in their treasure.<br>Upstage the bride falls in satin to the floor.<br>Beside her the tall hero in a red wool robe<br>stirs the fire with his ivory cane.<br>The string quartet plays for itself,<br>gently, gently, sleeves and waxy bows.<br>The legs of the dancers leap and catch.<br>I myself have little stiff legs,<br>my back is as straight as a book<br>and how I came to this place—<br>the little feverish roses,<br>the islands of olives and radishes,<br>the blissful pastimes of the parlor—<br>I'll never know.</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=345517" data-title="Wallflower de Anne Sexton" data-description="Come friend, I have an old story to tell you— Listen. Sit down beside me and listen. My face is red with sorrow and my breasts are made of straw. I sit in the ladder-back chair in a corner of the polished stage. I have forgiven all the old ac..."></div> </div> </div>

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