A Quote by Anne Sexton

When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.

Anne Sexton

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Ball Beats Cocktail Dress Drum Heart Kisses Laundry My Heart Other Put Sleep Someone Tin Toilet Try Up

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Anne Sexton
American - Poet
November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974

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