Famous Quotes | He gets red roses in different...

He gets red roses in different places,
the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river,
the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow,
the arm like a diamond had bitten it,
the leg, twisted like a licorice stick.... - Anne Sexton
Attribution: Anne Sexton (1928–1974), U.S. poet. “A Red Roses.”

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