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   4revgreen
   4revgreen · Aug 3

   1963
   
   i can’t believe
   sylvia plath
   never got to watch
   doctor who before
   she died.
   i wonder if she would have
   enjoyed it.
   probably not.
   i don’t know.
   the early seasons carry a
   sort of sentiment the
   feminist within me wants to hate.
   but how can i hate something
   i came to love so much.
   
   i annotate my copies of her
   poetry collections,
   ariel, the colossus, they are
   within me.
   not one but
   two copies of the bell jar
   sit upon my shelf.
   red and green underlined
   passages, words circled,
   highlighted, pages dog-eared
   and that homely, stale
   smell of old books.
   i found out her daughter lives
   just one hour
   away from me.
   
   two things in my life
   that never collided
   i read her poetry, i know
   her life.
   she never knew me.
   she never could.

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