Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.
A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!
There are fumes I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?
If I could bleed, or sleep!
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!
Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.
But colorless. Colorless.
Sylvia Plath
And the raging swirl of depression rages.
Adieu.
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5 comments:
love sylvia plath, and just noticed you like elliot smith - what a tragedy that was - if you like hum try jeff Buckley's CD 'grace'
Oh yes, I'll second that!
Plath and Buckley are regulars in my little world...
Grace. My. God. What a CD.
It's mindblowing, truly. I just don't have words that could do it justice...
Paul you're right about Sylvia, of course, and yes - do you like Elliot Smith too? I actually ordered Grace today.
Now that's a risk of depression you don't hear about often...spending a week's wages in one day.
*hugs* Abs
'litle bloody skirts'
she's so amazing, sylvia.
yes, shes good. damned good. should be on the a-level eng lit syllabus, so many different things to pick up on there.
*hugs* Niki.
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