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This poem was written
because Anne Sexton's dear

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friend, and a good friend
of mine, is Maxine Kumin.

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Super poet.

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Super lady.

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And in the newspapers in
Baltimore at any rate,

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there were a lot of
quotes from Maxine.

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And I wanted to write
a poem, because I

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didn't agree with her quotes.

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Life had a depressing
effect on her.

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She was so terrified of
death she ran out to meet it.

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Newspaper quotes
attributed to Maxine Kumin.

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For Max.

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Lady it is depressing,
no mistake.

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Still, there is something in it.

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Things come out rough and
read but they come out.

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And we bear the bearing of them.

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We poets with breasts
crying over our own milk.

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What must our daughters think?

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Who drink our overload.

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Spilling, spilling, feeding
them and other selected works.

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Breathe for the labors sake.

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Endure.

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These bones were
made for bearing.

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Like it or not.

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Max, it was life she was
afraid of all the time.

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[APPLAUSE]

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