Dear Anne Sexton

My dearest Anne, I am living by a lake

With a young man, my dearest Anne

His beard is red, his eyes flicker

His eyes flicker like a cat's eyes

He is like no one I know

His cock sinks deep in my heart

I have owed you a letter

For all these months

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love him now, like I loved you once)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love a man, my dearest Anne)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love him now, like I loved you once)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love a man, my dearest Anne)

Live or die, you said insistently

You chose the second and the first chose me

Is love the sugar-coated poison

That gets us in the end?

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love him now, like I loved you once)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love a man, my dearest Anne)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love him now, like I loved you then)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love a man, my dearest Anne)

My dearest Anne, you loved a man

He fucked you well but you couldn't talk to him

If we could only speak in tongues

But we can't my dearest Anne

And now I'm writing to you

And you're off in the clouds

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love him now, like I loved you once)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love a man, my dearest Anne)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love him now, like I loved you once)

Anne, my dearest Anne (I love a man, my dearest Anne)

Anne, my dearest Anne

Anne, my dearest Anne

Anne, my dearest Anne