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Re: WARNING

Posted by kid_A on January 17, 2002, at 17:42:28

In reply to Re: WARNING, posted by paulB on January 17, 2002, at 15:37:53


There is an animal inside me,
clutching fast to my heart,
a huge crab.
The doctors of Boston
have thrown up their hands
They have tried scalpels,
needles, poison gasses and the like.
The crab remains.
It is a great weight.
I try to forget it, go about my business,
cook the brococoli, open and shut books,
brush my teeth and tie my shoes.
I have tried prayer
but as I pray the crab grips harder
and the pain enlarges.

I had a dream once,
perhaps it was a dream,
that the crab was my ignorance of God.
But who am I to believe in dreams?

-Anne Sexton, excerpt from the poem "THE POET OF IGNORANCE"


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