Sylvia Plath Poetry
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    Sylvia Plath Poetry is a book filled with the content of Sylvia Plath's poems. Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Plath's work often was singled out for the intense coupling of its violent or disturbed imagery and...

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    For A Fatherless Son

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                                    You will be aware of an absence, presently,Growing beside you, like a tree,A death tree, color gone, an Australian gum tree ---Balding, gelded by lightning--an illusion,And a sky like a pig's backside, an utter lack of attention
                                
                                  
                                  
                                    
                                      
                                      
                                    
                                  
                                 
                                
    
                                
    
                                  
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    You will be aware of an absence, presently,
    Growing beside you, like a tree,
    A death tree, color gone, an Australian gum tree ---
    Balding, gelded by lightning--an illusion,
    And a sky like a pig's backside, an utter lack of attention.
    But right now you are dumb.
    And I love your stupidity,
    The blind mirror of it. I look in
    And find no face but my own, and you think that's funny.
    It is good for me
    To have you grab my nose, a ladder rung.
    One day you may touch what's wrong ---
    The small skulls, the smashed blue hills, the godawful hush.
    Till then your smiles are found money.
    
                                
    
                                    Till then your smiles are found money
                                
                                  
                                  
                                    
                                      
                                      
                                    
                                  
                                 
                                
    
                                
    
                                  
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