April is the month to celebrate poets and poetry, and so I will share one of my poems here (and please don't be intimidated by how good it is, as I teach creative writing, and so I have unbelievable creative powers) and I should warn you that this poem contains an "allusion" and that if you don't know how Sylvia Plath offed herself, then you might not understand all the "layers" of this masterpiece, which not only did I write myself (without the use of the internet) but I have also memorized in toto so that I can recite it to my classes after we read "Mirror":
Some Advice for Sylvia Plath
Get your head out of that oven
and cook us up another poem.
6 comments:
I think Jay-z already said something to this effect.
Were you in the Catskills recently? Recycled jokes and a stand up routine on GTB. Shticky
i was in the catskills recently and it must have affected me.
Now I know why you told me you could never write a novel. . .
these sentences tax my brain to the maximum.
these sentences tax my brain to the maximum.
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