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MAN AND WIFE by ANNE SEXTON

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First Line: WE ARE NOT LOVERS
Last Line: if they could only fly the distance
Subject(s): MARRIAGE;
Full Poem Text Available at
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Complete_Poems/EfKZCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sexton+%22We+are+not+lovers%22&pg=PT143&printsec=frontcover


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