they said you were sick unto dying/ but they were wrong. You are singing like a school girl/ you are not torn." (Sexton Love Poems Pg181-182) Another quote from Love Poems that makes women a symbol comes from "The Kiss": "My mouth blooms like a cut. I've been wonged all year, tedious nights, nothing but rough elbows in them and delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybaby, crybaby, you fool!" (Sexton Love. Pg 174)Now in Live and Die, the poem "Flee on Your D
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