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"Dead Crush"



Oh uplift me woman
if we were to have a 
conversation would 
bees fly out of your mouth
or just mewling, simpering 
watered-down honey
not so pristine, just soft
and somewhat 
ingratiatingly tainted
you ply uplifting
romantic notions
like an air raid 
shelter bombing 
a numb audience
like rubbing an
alligator’s stomach
What life have you lived, 
outside of de rigueur, 
it’s always neatly made
your bed, spotless
perfectly clean
not a wrinkle seen
nurses' corners 
sharply read 
by others less green,
ghosts you never 
will know
with your cupid’s 
arrow and bow
slung over your shoulder
while you paint your toenails
the palest shade 
of pleasantly parochial 
“Untouched Nude”
sipping holy water
oh, you're blessed
adding your 
Temperance Leaguer's
spritz of soda

Nan lost her 
head to romance
with a gross narcissistic
Red Rosed Tudor, 
all for a son
not for a daughter
Plath did 
the Hughes 
grave dance
wrote a confessional poem
about being 
a revolutionary
sucking on gas
in the end 
she’d burn 
the philanderer's *** 
for a requiem mass
Miller shot 
soldiers in the 
midst of death
with a ballsy 
Man Ray frame, 
like a pearl necklace
she wore it 
around her neck 
she was a flashlight
amongst it all
an equal uniform 
in pants

Women 
and their 
never to be
forgotten
pasts 

Uplifted in 
the middle room
somewhere
the three
in conversation
about poets 
Queens of Kings
philosophers, 
alchemy and women
in their graves

The Mother
The Daughter
The holy ghost


reading
vacuous 
soft romancers
in another world
who with pliant mouths 
full of candy hearts
in the soggy go-between
are softly uplifted 
by Mills and Boons
plots 6ft deep
timidly walking 
through treacly sweet
moist soil sinking
like chocolate cake
at a book club afternoon tea
sacrosanct and clean
waiting to be saved

Sucking soup 
through sterile straws
Life crushing

the light of it 
meets 
the dark of it

in the soggy in-between



(LadyLabyrinth /2020)
gvlm
ljb, llb, klb, mlb
ak, io, to




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"Dead Crush" / alt-J
https://youtu.be/GOJUNJ1o394










1. Ann Boleyn
2. Lee Miller
3. Sylvia Plath







"Dead Crush"/ alt-J, Lyrics: 
https://genius.com/Alt-j-deadcrush-lyrics






Boleyn:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn

2. 
http://beingbess.blogspot.com/2012/08/death-could-not-separate-them-how.html





Miller:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Miller

2. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/miller-lee/





Plath:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath

2. 
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/02/there-are-almost-no-obituaries-for-sylvia-plath/273032/

3. Plath on Plath
https://youtu.be/g2lMsVpRh5c

4. Plath/Hughes, conversation
https://youtu.be/Vqhsnk6vY8E

5. Plath reads/Lady Lazarus
https://youtu.be/Uq2LOhaf97o
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