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Sylvia Plath
Mad Girl's Love Song

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"

Date: 2006-08-23 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lunarophelia.livejournal.com
This poem always takes me back to high school. :)

Date: 2006-08-23 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polymexina.livejournal.com
oh, see, i always hated this poem in HS... it wasn't til i got older (and more bitter? :P) that i started to see why it was COMPLETELY FRIKKING AWESOME.

Date: 2006-08-26 04:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ch6rredsquirrel.livejournal.com
there is something rather delicious about the whole thing. even if, yeah, *sigh* i probably think so too because i am now older and decidedly more bitter...

reading that somehow made my day though!

Date: 2006-08-26 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polymexina.livejournal.com
:D glad to be a service. how are things?

Date: 2006-08-27 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ch6rredsquirrel.livejournal.com
ah, well.. generally so-so, i guess. i'm still in that grey and forboding quasi-recent-grad limbo zone, ie annoyed at living at home (grrrrrrr), temping (ehhh....), wanting to move far, far away from massachusetts (yay! hopefully soon... as soon as i have a wee bit of $). Other than that, hummm... still sorting out whether or not this should just be ok with me, or if it isn't because there's that lingering "You must accomplish NOW! Do or FAIL PERMANANTLY" thing swirling around in my head which Smithies tend to get beeaten into them. ergh.

how are things with YOU?

Date: 2006-08-27 02:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lunarophelia.livejournal.com
It is funny how your tastes can change so much isn't it over such a short time, isn't it?

Date: 2006-08-27 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polymexina.livejournal.com
ha, but it doesn't FEEL short. :p

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