Senator Sexton

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    Wags try to invent new stories to tell about the legislature, and end by telling the old one about the senator who explained his unaccustomed possession of a large roll of bills by saying that someone pushed it over the transom while he slept. The expression “It came over the transom,” to explain any unusual good fortune, is part of local folklore.
    —For the State of Montana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Don’t they know that God gave them
    their miraculous sickness
    like a shield, like armor
    and if their eyes are in the wrong
    part of their heads, they shouldn’t complain?
    What are they doing seeing their doctors
    when the world’s up for grabs.
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)