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A POEM FOR A SUNDAY: 7/6/25 *

A POEM FOR A SUNDAY: 7/6/25 *

THE AMBITION BIRD by Anne Sexton

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THE AMBITION BIRD

by Anne Sexton

So it has come to this –

insomnia at 3:15 A.M.,

the clock tolling its engine

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like a frog following

a sundial yet having an electric

seizure at the quarter hour.

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The business of words keeps me awake.

I am drinking cocoa,

the warm brown mama.

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I would like a simple life

yet all night I am laying

poems away in a long box.

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It is my i…

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