lunes, 25 de febrero de 2013

The Fearful

Poem by Sylvia Plath.

This man makes a pseudonym
And crawls behind it like a worm. 

This woman on the telephone 
Says she is a man, not a woman. 

The mask increases, eats the worm, 
Stripes for mouth and eyes and nose, 

The voice of the woman hollows--- 
More and more like a dead one, 

Worms in the glottal stops.
She hates 

The thought of a baby--- 
Stealer of cells, stealer of beauty--- 

She would rather be dead than fat, 
Dead and perfect, like Nefertit, 

Hearing the fierce mask magnify 
The silver limbo of each eye 

Where the child can never swim, 
Where there is only him and him.

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