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e sun flamed straight down that noon on the water off Marblehead	A
That summer we wore black glasses to hide our eyes	B
We were always crying in our spare rooms little put upon sisters	C
In the two huge white handsome houses in Swampscott	A
When the sweetheart from England appeared with her cream skin and Yardley cosmetics	D
I had to sleep in the same room with the baby on a too short cot	A
And the seven year old wouldn't go out unless his jersey stripes	E
Matched the stripes of his socks	F
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Or it was richness eleven rooms and a yacht	A
With a polished mahogany stair to let into the water	G
And a cabin boy who could decorate cakes in six colored frosting	H
But I didn't know how to cook and babies depressed me	I
Nights I wrote in my diary spitefully my fingers red	A
With triangular scorch marks from ironing tiny ruchings and puffed sleeves	J
When the sporty wife and her doctor husband went on one of their cruises	K
They left me a borrowed maid named Ellen 'for protection '	-
And a small Dalmation	L
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In your house the main house you were better off	M
You had a rose garden and a guest cottage and a model apothecary shop	N
And a cook and a maid and knew about the key to the bourbon	L
I remember you playing 'Ja Da' in a pink piqu dress	O
On the game room piano when the 'big people' were out	A
And the maid smoked and shot pool under a green shaded lamp	P
The cook had one walleye and couldn't sleep she was so nervous	Q
On trial from Ireland she burned batch after batch of cookies	R
Till she was fired	A
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O what has come over us my sister	G
On that day off the two of us cried so hard to get	A
We lifted a sugared ham and a pineapple from the grownups' icebox	F
And rented an old green boat I rowed You read	A
Aloud cross legged on the stern seat from the Generation of Vipers	C
So we bobbed out to the island It was deserted	A
A gallery of creaking porches and still interiors	C
Stopped and awful as a photograph of somebody laughing	H
But ten years dead	A
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The bold gulls dove as if they owned it all	S
We picked up sticks of driftwood and beat them off	M
Then stepped down the steep beach shelf and into the water	G
We kicked and talked The thick salt kept us up	T
I see us floating there yet inseparable two cork dolls	U
What keyhole have we slipped through what door has shut	A
The shadows of the grasses inched round like hands of a clock	V
And from our opposite continents we wave and call	S
Everything has happened	A

Sylvia Plath

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