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Anna Who Was Mad (sample)

by Laila Salins

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Music: Laila Salins - voice and chamber jazz ensemble
Poetry: Anne Sexton
Photo of Anne Sexton from Spanish TV documentary

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Anna who was mad

Anna who was mad, I have a knife in my armpit.
When I stand on tiptoe I tap out messages.
Am I some sort of infection? Did I make you go insane?
Did I make the sounds go sour? Did I tell you to climb out the window? Forgive. Forgive. Say not I did. Say not. Say.
Speak Mary-words into our pillow.
Take me the gangling twelve-year-old into your sunken lap.
Whisper like a buttercup. Eat me.
Eat me up like cream pudding. Take me in. Take me.Take.
Give me a report on the condition of my soul.
Give me a complete statement of my actions.
Hand me a jack-in-the-pulpit and let me listen in.
Put me in the stirrups and bring a tour group through.
Number my sins on the grocery list and let me buy.
Did I make you go insane?
Did I turn up your earphone and let a siren drive through?
Did I open the door for the mustached psychiatrist
who dragged you out like a gold cart?
Did I make you go insane?
From the grave write me, Anna!
You are nothing but ashes but nevertheless
pick up the Parker Pen I gave you.
Write me. Write.

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released January 28, 2013
Laila Salins, vocals: Matt Wigton, bass

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laila salins New York, New York

"Captivated the crowd" (NY Times), "exceptional in her singing ability and performing intensity (Zurich Times), Latvian vocalist Laila Salins has enjoyed a richly diverse musical career, performing chamber music, world music, jazz, tango, and music theater/opera, performing widely in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. Her new CD, Elevator into the Sky, is with jazz chamber ensemble. ... more

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