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"Spite-- Homage
to Sylvia Plath."

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"I stamped my feet and
shook my fist and wept.

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I wanted to be one of that
glamorous sorority of the dead,

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I wanted to feel
the rib cage opened

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and the knocking of
the heart let out,

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I wanted to lie with the
paperweight of the Bible

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on my chest.

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I wanted the
return, the rebirth,

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to be the root you fell
over, the curb of earth that

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made you stumble.

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I wanted to be the little
poisonous selves that grew up

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in your gardens, the
henbane, the belladonna,

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the lovely, misnamed
hens-and-chickens.

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I wanted revenge, to be
beyond hurt and worry,

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to come back as the vegetal,
the spectacular amphibian

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welter of the swamp, the
pond, the marsh, the fen,

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to begin again and again,
I wanted to be no mind,

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all flesh, no
thinking, all feeling,

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just IS taking everything
into its bog, its tar pit,

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into the locked box of unbeing."

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