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In Memoriam Marina Tsvetayeva Anna Wickham Sylvia Plath Shakespeare s sister etc etc	A
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The best slave	B
does not need to be beaten	C
She beats herself	D
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Not with a leather whip	E
or with stick or twigs	F
not with a blackjack	G
or a billyclub	H
but with the fine whip	E
of her own tongue	I
the subtle beating	J
of her mind	K
against her mind	K
	-
For who can hate her half so well	L
as she hates herself	D
who can match the finesse	M
of her self abuse	N
	-
Years of training	J
are required for this	O
Twenty years	P
of subtle self indulgence	Q
self denial	R
until the subject	S
thinks herself a queen	T
yet a beggar	U
both at the same time	V
She must doubt herself	D
in everything but love	W
	-
She must choose passionately	X
badly	X
She must feel lost as a dog	Y
without her master	U
She must refer all moral questions	Z
to her mirror	U
She must fall in love with a cossack	A2
or a poet	B2
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She must never go out of the house	C2
unless veiled in paint	D2
She must wear tight shoes	E2
so she always remembers her bondage	F2
She must never forget	G2
she is rooted in the ground	H2
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Though she is quick to learn	I2
admittedly clever	U
her natural doubt of herself	D
should make her so weak	J2
that she dabbles brilliantly	X
in half a dozen talents	K2
thus embellishes	L2
but does not change	M2
our life	N2
	-
If she's an artist	O2
comes close to genius	P2
the very fact of her gift	Q2
should cause her such pain	R2
that she will take her own life	N2
rather than best us	P2
	-
after she dies we will cry	S2
make her a saint	D2

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