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10/8/2008 12:01:36 AM
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Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath
(1932 - 1963 / America)
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  What a thrill -
My thumb instead of an onion.
The top quite gone
Except for a sort of hinge

Of skin,
A flap like a hat,
Dead white.
Then that red plush.

Little pilgrim,
The Indian's axed your scalp.
Your turkey wattle
Carpet rolls

Straight from the heart.
I step on it,
Clutching my bottle
Of pink fizz. A celebration, this is.
Out of a gap
A million soldiers run,
Redcoats, every one.

Whose side are they one?
O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill

The thin
Papery feeling.
Saboteur,
Kamikaze man -

The stain on your
Gauze Ku Klux Klan
Babushka
Darkens and tarnishes and when
The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence

How you jump -
Trepanned veteran,
Dirty girl,
Thumb stump.

Sylvia Plath


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Justin Jelenek (4/3/2008 2:44:00 AM)
Very gruesome and graphic. I also get a sense of hysteria from this poem. Sylvia Plath is my new favorite poet.
Mai Opiut (1/8/2005 8:49:00 AM)
You have to love this womans intense use of imagery. The likening of blood to redcoats has inspired me often.

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