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Sylvia

She gives me head
for dinner
her own head
roasted
on a copper plate

She
wrote me
that her brain
must be eaten
by a hungry man

"BY A HUNGRY MAN!!"
she wrote me so

I
eat
her head
then her brain
until that final sliver of meat
slides down my throat
and feeds my suicidal peace






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  • skyviewexpress
    February 11, 2009

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    Ok, this is both creepy and weird, ha, but I love the last line.
    If people didn't know who she was, like myself, They may think that you are a cannibal. Hehe. Goodly disgusting poem Terry.

    -Kitten


    • rhetorica gold member
      February 11, 2009
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      Sylvia Plath was a great poet(ess),she married a very famous writer called Ted Hughes but he left her for another woman ,she commited suicide by placing her head in a hot oven,they reckon she was insane...strangely enough the woman that Ted had left Sylvia for also commited suicide....

      The brain and head of Sylvia in this poem represent her poetry which the writer adores

      thanks kitten

      rhet