Tells Alex

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“I concentrate.
My books hypnotize each other.
Jarrell tells Bishop to stare
at the spot. Tate
tells Plath she’s going under.
Eliot remembers his long lost mother....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“My smiling child
Named for a noble ancestor
Great hunter or warrior
You will be one day.
Which will give your papa pride
But always I will remember you thus.”
—African Lullaby. As quoted in Roots, by Alex Haley (1976)