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A Sad Child by Margaret Atwood

You’re sad because you’re sad.
It’s psychic. It’s the age. It’s chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.
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A Sad State Of Freedom by Nazim Hikmet

You waste the attention of your eyes,
the glittering labour of your hands,
and knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves
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For A Sad Lady by Dorothy Parker

And let her loves, when she is dead,
Write this above her bones:
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From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand

Someone was saying
something about shadows covering the field, about
how things pass, how one sleeps towards morning
and the morning goes.
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Sad Steps by Philip Larkin

Groping back to bed after a piss
I part the thick curtains, and am startled by
The rapid clouds, the moon’s cleanliness.
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The Sad Day by Thomas Flatman

O THE sad day!
When friends shall shake their heads, and say
Of miserable me–
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The Sad Message by Russell Edson

The Captain becomes moody at sea. He’s
afraid of water; such bully amounts that prove the
seas. . .
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The Sad Shepherd by William Butler Yeats

There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend,
And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,
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To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje

All night long the hockey pictures
gaze down at you
sleeping in your tracksuit.
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To The Sad Moon by Sir Philip Sidney

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!
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