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'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy	A
train tracks always meet not here but only	A
in the impossible mind's eye	B
horizons beat a retreat as we embark	C
on sophist seas to overtake that mark	C
where wave pretends to drench real sky '	D
	-
'Well then if we agree it is not odd	E
that one man's devil is another's god	E
or that the solar spectrum is	F
a multitude of shaded grays suspense	G
on the quicksands of ambivalence	H
is our life's whole nemesis	I
	-
So we could rave on darling you and I	B
until the stars tick out a lullaby	B
about each cosmic pro and con	J
nothing changes for all the blazing of	K
our drastic jargon but clock hands that move	L
implacably from twelve to one	M
	-
We raise our arguments like sitting ducks	N
to knock them down with logic or with luck	O
and contradict ourselves for fun	M
the waitress holds our coats and we put on	J
the raw wind like a scarf love is a faun	J
who insists his playmates run	J
	-
Now you my intellectual leprechaun	J
would have me swallow the entire sun	J
like an enormous oyster down	J
the ocean in one gulp you say a mark	C
of comet hara kiri through the dark	C
should inflame the sleeping town	J
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So kiss the drunks upon the curb and dames	P
in dubious doorways forget their monday names	P
caper with candles in their heads	Q
the leaves applaud and santa claus flies in	J
scattering candy from a zeppelin	J
playing his prodigal charades	R
	-
The moon leans down to took the tilting fish	S
in the rare river wink and laugh we lavish	S
blessings right and left and cry	B
hello and then hello again in deaf	T
churchyard ears until the starlit stiff	U
graves all carol in reply	B
	-
Now kiss again till our strict father leans	V
to call for curtain on our thousand scenes	V
brazen actors mock at him	W
multiply pink harlequins and sing	X
in gay ventriloquy from wing to wing	X
while footlights flare and houselights dim	W
	-
Tell now we taunt where black or white begins	Y
and separate the flutes from violins	Y
the algebra of absolutes	Z
explodes in a kaleidoscope of shapes	A2
that jar while each polemic jackanapes	A2
joins his enemies' recruits	A2
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The paradox is that 'the play's the thing'	X
though prima donna pouts and critic stings	A2
there burns throughout the line of words	A2
the cultivated act a fierce brief fusion	J
which dreamers call real and realists illusion	J
an insight like the flight of birds	A2
	-
Arrows that lacerate the sky while knowing	X
the secret of their ecstasy's in going	X
some day moving one will drop	B2
and dropping die to trace a wound that heals	A2
only to reopen as flesh congeals	A2
cycling phoenix never stops	A2
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So we shall walk barefoot on walnut shells	A2
of withered worlds and stamp out puny hells	A2
and heavens till the spirits squeak	X
surrender to build our bed as high as jack's	A2
bold beanstalk lie and love till sharp scythe hacks	A2
away our rationed days and weeks	A2
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Then jet the blue tent topple stars rain down	J
and god or void appall us till we drown	J
in our own tears today we start	C2
to pay the piper with each breath yet love	K
knows not of death nor calculus above	K
the simple sum of heart plus heart	C2

Sylvia Plath

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