Hey Sylvia Plath! Get Your Act Together! April is National Poetry Month!

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:

zman said...

I think Jay-z already said something to this effect.

Ted Hughes said...

Were you in the Catskills recently? Recycled jokes and a stand up routine on GTB. Shticky

Dave said...

i was in the catskills recently and it must have affected me.

Mr. Reck said...

Now I know why you told me you could never write a novel. . .

Dave said...

these sentences tax my brain to the maximum.

Dave said...

these sentences tax my brain to the maximum.

A New Sentence Every Day, Hand Crafted from the Finest Corinthian Leather.