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SNAKE by ANNE SEXTON

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First Line: MADE OF OLD RAGS OF TONGUES
Last Line: AND ALLOW ALL OUR BODY HAIR TO TURN GREEN WITH ENVY
Subject(s): ANIMALS; GOD; RELIGION; SNAKES;

Poem Sources:

THE COMPLETE POEMS. WITH A FOREWORD BY MAXINE KUMIN.
  SEXTON, ANNE
  (1981)
 



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