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Horror Poet

one of my firsts was Sylvia Plath
just like sad college girls
the world over

but I knew what people meant
when they said
that her work was obsessed with death
preening, diseased, and cruel

and all I could say
was that I liked it that way

and liked that she went to places
uncouth for women poets of that time…

that if the masculine could be
masturbatory, grim, and raving at the swell
of past
so could the feminine…

and that she took the nursery rhyme
and moulded it to fit
the Reaper’s vocal cords
Written by Casted_Runes (Mr Karswell)
Published
Author's Note
Title taken from that of Philip Larkin’s essay on Plath.
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