Some poems I like...

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[the_starveling]

Thanks for sharing these, I really liked Words For Dr. Y.

What do you think these lines represent in her poem?

"You give me hot chocolate
Although I am known to have no belly."

I can think of a few different things, but I'm not sure if any of them would be right. I keep thinking back to her reported eating disorder.

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I don't know personally, unfortunately I have not read a whole lot about Sexton yet. But I plan to. You are probably right.

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This piece of writing is particularly talking about her dependence on therapy, taking the advice, suggested directions, and then without control, she defies those things out of her need to rebel, to listen to that ego inside that says her selfish needs are still needs. The healing begins like a ritual every time she revisits the therapy, and tries to start "living" again. Followed by the little deaths that occur afterward, always. A habitual thing, therapy. The addiction to guilt, and the temporary high of pulling it back together again.
This line is especially powerful in illuminating this concept, I think:
"I am out of practice at living"

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Interesting way of putting it. I can certainly relate.