Zero degrees

[flamingo_bandit]

I seem to have become weirdly obsessed with Sylvia Plath's "Mad Girl's Love Song." I don't know why, except that it's achingly beautiful. And I think Sylvia Plath does tend to resonate with me.


"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.)"

Also, this musical version by Fisher.

I can't get it out of my mind. So I memorized it at work while it was slow yesterday, from the biography section of The Bell Jar, which I've not yet read. That way I can always have it, and not just in half-remembered snatches. Something funny about wandering an empty store, fixing displays and mumbling to myself about how "I made you up inside my head".

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Anyone have any favorite poems they'd like to share with the class?