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Anne Sexton

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Earth, earth
riding your merry-go-round
toward extinction,
right to the roots
thickening the oceans like gravy,
festering in your caves,
you are becoming a latrine.
--
"As It Was Written" from Last Poems

 
Anne Sexton

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