Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton

A poem by Alan Dugan

The first and last time I met

my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at

a protest poetry reading against

some anti-constitutional war in Asia

when some academic son of a bitch,

to test her reputation as a drunk,

gave her a beer glass full of wine

after our reading. She drank

it all down while staring me

full in the face and then said

“I don’t care what you think,

you know,” as if I was

her ex-what, husband, lover,

what? And just as I

was just about to say I

loved her, I was, what,

was, interrupted by my beautiful enemy

Galway Kinnell, who said to her

“Just as I was told, your eyes,

you have one blue, one green”

and there they were, the two

beautiful poets, staring at

each others’ beautiful eyes

as I drank the lees of her wine.

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