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THE HOUSE by ANNE SEXTON

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First Line: IN DREAMS / THE SAME BAD DREAM GOES ON
Last Line: those people who stand at the open windows like objects / waiting to topple
Subject(s): GOD; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

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