#going gone

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton; "Going Gone,"

[stavehands]

let me take you down to the wreckage

I know a place down on the west end

where new things go when they get old

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I’d do anything if I could just let go

take it on the chin like I always do

try to start again but it’s always you

little slip of orange streetlights

little tick of time I can rewind

[mvaljean525]

Over stone walls and barns, miles from the black-eyed Susans, over circus tents and moon rockets you are going, going. You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going. An old woman calls up to you from her deathbed deep in sores, asking, "What do you keep of her?" She is the crone in the fables. She is the fool at the supper and you, sir, are the traveler. Although you are in a hurry you stop to open a small basket and under layers of petticoats you show her the tiger-striped eyes that you have lately plucked, you show her specialty, the lips, those two small bundles, you show her the two hands that grip her fiercely, one being mine, one being yours. Torn right off at the wrist bone when you started in your impossible going, gone. Then you place the basket in the old woman's hollow lap and as a last act she fondles these artifacts like a child's head and murmurs, "Precious. Precious." And you are glad you have given them to this one for she too is making a trip.

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Going Gone

Anne Sexton  1928-1974

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Graphic - Xenia Hausner  (B.1951)

[derangedrhythms]

Anne Sexton, The Book of Folly; from ‘Going Gone’

[dannyfariiia]

Huber Marot 

[mooneyedandglowing]

Going Gone

Discovered last night. Sounds like home.

[cowboyx2]

i have never had the urge to punch drywall more