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  • This is what poems are:
    with mercy
    for the greedy,
    they are the tongue's wrangle,
    the world's pottage, the rat's star.

    Anne Sexton
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    Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. - Anne Sexton
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