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Sylvia Plath
The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
Poems, Potatoes
The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line
Ousts mistier peers and thrives, murderous,
In establishments which imagined lines
Can only haunt. Sturdy as potatoes,
Stones, without conscience, word and line endure,
Given an inch. Not that they're gross (although
Afterthought often would have them alter
To delicacy, to poise) but that they
Shortchange me continuously: whether
More or other, they still dissatisfy.
Unpoemed, unpictured, the potato
Bunches its knobby browns on a vastly
Superior page; the blunt stone also.
Book:
The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath
1932 - 1963
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1932 - 1963
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